The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.” — Cheryl Cory Copy Share Image
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much… — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish… — Dahr Jamail Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
“Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
“And Noelle discovered that even unlimited excess loses its charm, the thrill of getting anything she wanted wearing thinner and thinner. Wasn’t… — Joe Ide Copy Share Image
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their… — Barbara Demick Copy Share Image
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had… — Horace Copy Share Image
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil. — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the… — Mahavira Copy Share Image
The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow. — Warren Hellman Copy Share Image
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking. — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste Copy Share Image
I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active. — Eden Sher Copy Share Image
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place. — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
