It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
“Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It's important that when you do standup, you do small places like coffee shops and also big places like colleges. It helps… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going to happen?… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I… — John Gabriel Stedman Copy Share Image
Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an… — Matthew Engel Copy Share Image
I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?'… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish… — Dahr Jamail Copy Share Image
The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of… — Cristina Nehring Copy Share Image
He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, as William Blake said. Yet only if it is the excess of… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
On infrastructure, there's a potential for Donald Trump to reach out to Democrats. He's talking about infrastructure spending far in excess of… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses]… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much… — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
Onlookers frequently confuse edge with style...Edge means generating excess returns because of mispricing. Style suggests being in the right place at the… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
![“That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy has not yet been discovered. Perhaps it is an evil inseparable from the good with which it is allied; perhaps it is a shoot which cannot be…” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/52f/james-madison-373_america_that-this-liberty-of-the-press-is-often_908560.jpg)
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