Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics …… — John Pintard 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
The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense. — Phaedrus Copy Share Image
America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself -- from its own excesses and arrogance. And the… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint;… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
We have an overdraft with the earth something in excess of 130 per cent. We currently consume something like 30 per cent… — Michael Meacher Copy Share Image
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I… — Elizabeth Ashley Copy Share Image
Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be… — Emily Yoffe 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
We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information. — Peter Greenaway 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
