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“Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“That the crowd always likes a holiday is a common saying, but when the whole year becomes one long holiday, and nobody has time for attending to his business, and pleasure becomes compulsory, then it is a different matter.”
― Robert Graves, I, Claudius

“Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere-- "Be bold;
Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
Than the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Sex without love borders on becoming meaningless.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Most of us are moving through such an undergrowth of excess that we cannot sense the shape of ourselves any more.”
― John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

“Even years from now, once I've stopped drinking, I will never stop trusting extremes. I will always believe that anything worth having is worth having in excess. The good things are worth hoarding until you have a cookie-fat ass, sex-aching loins, joy that fires through you like popping popcorn, or love, the weakness at the sight of some boy who makes your chest ache like indigestion. If it's good for you, it ought to be good for you in any amount, and you should track down every available bit of it. And if it's toxic, if it turns your liver into a hard little rock of scar tissue, or curls your memory at the edges like something burned in a fire, or makes your stomach flop, or your mind ache, or your personality contorted, you shouldn't buy into the bullshit about temperance.”
― Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

“Anger,
The spring of all life's horror.

- Medea”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

“A large part of our excessive, unnecessary manifestations come from a terror that if we are not somehow signaling all the time that we exist, we will in fact no longer be there”
― Peter Brook, There Are No Secrets: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre

“Speaking generally, we may say that whatever legal enactments are held to be for the interest of various constitutions, all these preserve them. And the great preserving principle is the one which has been repeatedly mentioned- to have a care that the loyal citizen should be stronger than the disloyal. Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state. A nose which varies from the ideal of straightness to a hook or snub may still be of good shape and agreeable to the eye; but if the excess be very great, all symmetry is lost, and the nose at last ceases to be a nose at all on account of some excess in one direction or defect in the other; and this is true of every other part of the human body. The same law of proportion equally holds in states. Oligarchy or democracy, although a departure from the most perfect form, may yet be a good enough government, but if any one attempts to push the principles of either to an extreme, he will begin by spoiling the government and end by having none at all. Wherefore the legislator and the statesman ought to know what democratical measures save and what destroy a democracy, and what oligarchical measures save or destroy an oligarchy. For neither the one nor the other can exist or continue to exist unless both rich and poor are included in it. If equality of property is introduced, the state must of necessity take another form; for when by laws carried to excess one or other element in the state is ruined, the constitution is ruined.”
― Aristotle, Politics

“I gradually fell from grace; alas, you dove in headfirst!”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“I’m best in small doses, believe me.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke

“Having too much of anything results in chaos, confusion and clutter.”
― Geralin Thomas, Decluttering Your Home: Tips, Techniques and Trade Secrets

“I asked myself, “Who would I be if I weren’t busy? What would be left of my life and me after I removed excess stuff from my home and allowed my day to have unscheduled open spaces?”
― Lisa J. Shultz, Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.

“Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.”
― Anne Ursu, The Real Boy

“It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.”
― Leonard Cohen

“The man afflicted by hunger for power or money for its own sake is just that: afflicted. He is tormented by incessant desires for more without cause. He is the most likely to wear a social mask to succeed, and thus he is always unsure of himself and his life, the deep tear inside always causing him to obsess about how to get more, why he doesn't have it already, and whom he will have to please or become in order to get it.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.”
― Date Masamune

“Most things in life are like a cake, have excess of it and you get sick of it.”
― Anupama Garg

“In the lives of saints I look for confirmation of excess. To them it is not strange to spend nights on a mountain or to forgo food. For them, the visionary and the everyday coincide. Above all, they have no domestic virtues, preferring intensity to comfort. Despite their inhospitable ways, they ferment with unexpected life, like those bleak railway cuttings that host horizontal dandelions. They know there is no passion without pain.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories

“Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“Leaders don’t give excessive vocal orders. They humbly involve people and together cooperate with them to make a change happen.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“I wept for my family, all if us, my beautiful, idyllic, lost family. I wept for our excesses, our delusions and inconsistencies; not that we had cared too much or too little, although both were true, but that we had let such extraordinary care be subverted into extraordinary carelessness. We'd been careless with the best of our many resources: each other. It was as though we had taken for granted the fact that there would be more where we had come from too; another chance, another summer, another Brooke, Bridget or Bill.”
― Brooke Hayward

“Money undergoes a conversion when one has more of it than is strictly necessary. When there is enough of it to move beyond the strict survival mode, money goes in search of beauty. That is to say, in search of the abstract and the imaginary. Just like poetry, which is the distillation of an excess of language. Too much money and too many words tend toward the poetic.”
― Andrei Codrescu, Wakefield

“First sons and daughters seduced to play and party 'til it was too late to realize they were being lead to the slaughter. They discounted the law of moderation.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Min Herres behagelige Sendebrev af 27de Dag udi Glugmaanet, (a) haver jeg den anden Dag af Blidemaaned (b) bekommet. Min Herre forlanger at vide hvordan Tilstanden nu omstunder er ved Academiet, om man tilkommende Sommer kand vente, at see nogen, at blive ophøyed paa Doctor-Trappen, (c) enten udi den Guddommelige Kundskab (d), udi de verdslige Love, (e) eller udi Lægekunsten (f). Min Herre ønsker ogsaa at vide, hvor mange Mestere af Verdens Viisdom (g) i Fior bleve skabte (h), hvor mange Laurbærkronede Personer (i), Item, hvo dette Aar er Rector og Decanus, det er den høye Skoles Forstander og den verdslige Viisdoms Høvidsmand, iligemaade, hvad Nyt som ellers er forefaldet udi den lærde Fristad (k).

(a) Januario.(b) Februario.(c) Doctor-Graden.(d) Theologien.(e) Injure.(f) Medicinen.(g) Magistri Philosophiae.(h) Creerede.(i) Baccalaurei.(k) Republica literaria.”
― Ludvig Holberg, Epistler

“No other person in the world laughed quite like Freddie Usher. Mercifully so....There were no half-hearted methods adopted when Freddie Usher became amused. No discreetness. No lack of abandon. No thought for the eardrums of those in the next street but two.”
― Alan Melville, Weekend at Thrackley

“To be doable is to be overdoable.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In the end, man is not entirely guilty â€� he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent â€� he continues it.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

“The irony of excess wealth is that it is either for waste or for others. When you prepare an elaborate meal, you can only fill your stomach and consume no more. Your next benefit will be watching others demolish the dishes appreciatively or otherwise.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1