Excess generally causes reaction, and produces
a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in
the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
?Plato
Moderation is a fatal thing. . . .
Nothing succeeds like excess.
?Oscar Wilde
In everything the middle course is the
best; everything in excess brings trouble.
?Titus Maccius Plautus
Excess on occasion is exhilarating.
It prevents moderation from
acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
?W. Somerset Maugham
Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation,
the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from
a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle,
"I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
?Tallulah Bankhead
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
?Hippocrates
