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Sagt av |
| Överflöd orsakar vanligtvis en reaktion, och framkallar en ändring i motsatt riktning, vare sig det rör årstider, eller individer, eller regeringar. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| 'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess | John Selden (1584-1654) |
| Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Everything in excess is opposed to nature. | Hippocrates |
| An excess of courtesy is discourtesy | Japanese Proverb |
| Excess of meats bringeth sickness | Bible |
| Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating | Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) |
| In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. | Titus Maccius Plautus (250 f.Kr.-184 f.Kr.) |
| Betre bukjen sprengje enn god mat slengje | Anders Molven |
| Når vi har tatt de nødvendige forhåndsregler mot kulde, sult og tørst, er alt det øvrige ikke annet enn forfenglighet og overflod | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Skjenk meg livets overflod, og jeg kan unnvære det nødvendigste. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |