Excess

Famous quotes containing the word excess:

“The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,—all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)