The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. — Samuel Parr Copy Share Image
“Diplomacy is beautiful, but it must also follow the famous maxim of nothing in excess.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble. — Plautus Copy Share Image
There are more things to gain from eliminating excess than you might imagine: time, space, freedom, and energy, for example. — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. — Horace Copy Share Image
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction. — Plato Copy Share Image
Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills.… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Oh, if only the suffering soul knew how it is loved by God, it would die of joy and excess of happiness!… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively. — Tom Christiansen Copy Share Image
Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. — Date Masamune Copy Share Image
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess. — John Stott 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
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
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
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
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
