With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The nature of markets, and that includes player acquisition markets, is such that sooner or later any set of successful formulae that… — John W. Henry Copy Share Image
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum… — Plautus Copy Share Image
America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself -- from its own excesses and arrogance. And the… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint;… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's formation of bubbles, whether it's… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Let's talk about the other story: the women raped and killed. I don't believe it. Certainly there was no lack of excesses,… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more… — Steve Howey Copy Share Image
The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Excess nitrogen from the fertilizers can cause eutrophication in the ocean, which can lead to harmful algae blooms or hypoxia - reduced… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In terms of the energy-banking concept, what we'd love to be able to do is to act in a way where customers… — Debra L. Reed Copy Share Image
It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've heard Braggadocio about excess baggage charges, multiple unused hotel rooms, and rental cars held unused for long periods of time, which… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
The fact that many people overindulge, and lose themselves in excess, and make fools of themselves and act like idiots, is no… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I do think that when you go into red states, they're - so-called red states - I think they're troubled with certain… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
We shouldn't forget about the over 100,000, in fact some estimates place it in excess of one million, the over 100,000 innocent… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
![“In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]” quote by Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ad2/plautus-1263_all-things_in-everything-the-middle-course-is-best_1003514.jpg)
![“Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior, and excesses have occurred in the opposite direction, in de-regulating other types of behavior. As a matter of fact, if they continue to regulate the…” quote by Frank Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0b2/frank-zappa-702_administration_well-the-thing-is-that-under-the-ronald_672679.jpg)
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