We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be… — David Mamet 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
Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let's talk about the other story: the women raped and killed. I don't believe it. Certainly there was no lack of excesses,… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.… — Carl Sagan 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
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Anywhere you have sustained excess moisture and organic material, you will keep getting mould. — Bryan Baeumler Copy Share Image
I personally don't do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I'd… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes… — Sam Tanenhaus 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
We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards… — Ugo Cavallero Copy Share Image
Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.” — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image