“The thing about love is, when you’re raised with an excess, the overflow splashes onto those around you.” — Hailey Edwards Copy Share Image
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I've never understood haute cuisine. I've never even understood spending in excess of 15 minutes - or $15 - procuring something to eat. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Nothing exceeds like excess. Style got gout from having the best of the best. — Jay Z Copy Share Image
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
“Moderation has no creative force; the balance is sterile. Excess is not avoided, it is administered.” — Horacio Marchand Flores Copy Share Image
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But in the financial markets, without proper institutional rules, there's the law of the jungle - because there's greed! There's nothing wrong… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“How many ills, how many infirmities, does man owe to his excesses, his ambition – in a word, to the indulgence of… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess. — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects. — James Young Simpson Copy Share Image
'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess — John Selden Copy Share Image
There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess. — Terence Copy Share Image
She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
“I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness. — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity. — John Updike Copy Share Image
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and the rest… — Earle Gray Copy Share Image
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