Excess

Famous quotes containing the word excess:

“There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

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