Excess

Famous quotes containing the word excess:

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

“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“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)