Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. — Euripides Copy Share Image
I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy. — Lemmy Copy Share Image
How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess. — Thomas Paine 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
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier 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
The problem with certain Englishmen is drinking to excess, the systematic search for drunkenness. — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence… — Thomas Carlyle 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
when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights.… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
When I stand on my special-issue "Intelligent Investor" ladder and peer out over the frenzied crowd, I see very few others doing… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as… — David Wright Copy Share Image
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
