Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess,… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number. — Michael Pare Copy Share Image
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at… — Rick Aster Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all… — Ronen Sen Copy Share Image
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim… That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If only happiness when in excess, bubbles over, and can contaminate others; with only a few happy ones; in just a few… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Many Christians are either woefully deficient in their knowledge of Scripture or noticeably devoid of any experience of God's power. The Lord… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet… — Curtis White Copy Share Image
We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
