In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble. — Plautus Copy Share Image
Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All… — John Parsons Copy Share Image
The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out… — Paul Laxalt Copy Share Image
We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa,… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“In her youth she hadn't known that excess could be a problem too. Just as a plant can drown in too much… — Alam Nigar Copy Share Image
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. — Euripides Copy Share Image
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is… — James Baker 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
Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
They’re a nasty bunch of people. The Riot Club’s sole purpose is to celebrate wealth, elitism, hedonism, and excess - just random… — Max Irons 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
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
