"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." - W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess."
- SHAKESPEARE, King John

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." - OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance