Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“Give me excess of love, whatever it costs. We pay with our souls, and if we die with our souls intact we… — Louise Carey Copy Share Image
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other… — Wess Stafford 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
“Don't wait for what you don't have. Use what you have, begin now and what you don't even expect will come alongside… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really… — Fergie Copy Share Image
When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that… — Louis D. Brandeis 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
The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Europe has an incredibly long, bloody history based on an excess of nationalism which has also created a lot of amazing art.… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds. — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The problem with certain Englishmen is drinking to excess, the systematic search for drunkenness. — Marcel Desailly 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
Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray. — Alfred Jodl Copy Share Image
Excess into muscle. Jesus pill binge. Water into wine. Devil in a syringe. — Angelspit 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
The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“Leaders don’t give excessive vocal orders. They humbly involve people and together cooperate with them to make a change happen.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners. — Rosemary Verey Copy Share Image