145 Quotes About Excess

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

The report is universally strong and is pointing to growth in excess of Greenspan's objectives.

It's hard to get wage gains when you've got a persistently excess labor supply.

Excess weakens the spirits.

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

I don't think there's such a thing as an excess of pitching.