The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

- Horace

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

- Hippocrates

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

- Grace Jones

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess of what can be used safely to reimplant for a pregnancy. So they're going to end up being discarded.

- Francis Collins

I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.

- Eden Sher

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

- Erma Bombeck

Over the years, I've found myself drawn more and more to simpler meals, to dishes that are focused, and to experiences that strip away the excess.

- Daniel Humm

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

- Charles Churchill

India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

- Christopher Marlowe

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

- Charlie Sheen

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

- Charles Dickens

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

- Carrie Fisher

You're in a mess, and in excess.

- Billy Strayhorn

There is moderation even in excess.

- Benjamin Disraeli

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

- bell hooks

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

- Ahmet Ertegun

Nothing exceeds like excess.

- Al Jourgensen