Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
“A couple of years ago my sister Judy and I were each given a box of truffles. The tiny print said two… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
The problem with certain Englishmen is drinking to excess, the systematic search for drunkenness. — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
I keep coming with reason why you can't have all of me excuses,excuses the truth is you make it hard for me. — Michael Myers Jr Copy Share Image
I went to a place recently I think is one of the most f**ked up places I've ever been to. I'm convinced… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now… — George Will Copy Share Image
I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. — Ralph Blum Copy Share Image
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. — William Penn Copy Share Image
With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. — Date Masamune Copy Share Image
On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We shouldn't forget about the over 100,000, in fact some estimates place it in excess of one million, the over 100,000 innocent… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. — Samuel Parr Copy Share Image
