Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. — George Will Copy Share Image
The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Our lives would have been a hell-of-a-lot better, had we known how to survive with what we have in excess.” — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand 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
Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“Too much brightness blinds the eyes. Too much sound deafens the ears. Too much flavour ruins the tongue. Chasing desires to excess… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of… — Carol Browner Copy Share Image
Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate… — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
They’re a nasty bunch of people. The Riot Club’s sole purpose is to celebrate wealth, elitism, hedonism, and excess - just random… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms… — Ross Douthat 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
It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television. — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.” — Cheryl Cory Copy Share Image
I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people. — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. — Titus Maccius Plautus Copy Share Image
“Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” — Shakespeare Copy Share Image
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place. — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
