Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and what won't be enough tomorrow.” — Michael Easter 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
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next. — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
We've led pretty wholesome lives. We haven't lived life to excess like so many groups have done. — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Excess nitrogen from the fertilizers can cause eutrophication in the ocean, which can lead to harmful algae blooms or hypoxia - reduced… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior… — Confucius 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
The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more… — Steve Howey Copy Share Image
It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable 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
If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.… — William E. Gladstone 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
The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation,… — Bahá'u'lláh 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
If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies,… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society… — Caitlin Flanagan 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
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy. — Bob Beauprez 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
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
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin Copy Share Image
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense. — Phaedrus Copy Share Image
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
