This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.