There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Security and care of the objects is paramount. Arty composition comes after everything is safe from greasy fingers, humidity or excess light. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping. — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged.… — Roger Goodell Copy Share Image
But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what… — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men,… — Robert Adam Copy Share Image
Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!"… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress,… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“I told her stories. They were only a sentence long, each one of them. That’s all I knew how to find. So… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two… — Plato Copy Share Image
