Excess

Excess refers to amounts or behaviors that go beyond what is necessary, usual, normal, or proper.

Quotes

• In charity there is no excess.
  • Francis Bacon, Essays (1625), Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature.

• EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.
  • Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

• Refuse all excess, except in youthful enthusiasm.
  • Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, Lulu Press, 2nd ed. (2014), p. 39.

• Whenever there is excess, an axe remedies it!
  • Sumerian proverb, Collection XVIII at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.