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
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. — Alexander Hamilton 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
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
I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active. — Eden Sher 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 try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking. — Sam Palladio 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
Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age.… — Allen Hershkowitz Copy Share Image
we live in a world of excess: too many kinds of coffee, too many magazines, too many types of bread, too many… — Corinne Maier Copy Share Image
Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no… — Plautus Copy Share Image
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your… — Anneli Rufus Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
One study on the treatment of asthma patients conducted by researchers John Goyeche, Dr. Ago, and Dr. Ikemi, suggests that any effective… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The population of African people in the United States is far in excess of six small European nations. Where we are going?… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset… — Mariana Mazzucato 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
“For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.” — Cheryl Cory Copy Share Image
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . — Aristotle Copy Share Image
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people. — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. — Titus Maccius Plautus Copy Share Image
“Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” — Shakespeare 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
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd 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
Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
