... 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
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
Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners. — Rosemary Verey Copy Share Image
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy. — Anonymous 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
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating,… — John Selden Copy Share Image
“A large part of our excessive, unnecessary manifestations come from a terror that if we are not somehow signaling all the time… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity.… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what… — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men,… — Robert Adam Copy Share Image
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally… — David F. Houston 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
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
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I… — George Washington 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
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal. — Oscar Goodman Copy Share Image
Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. — Ralph Blum Copy Share Image
We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged.… — Roger Goodell Copy Share Image
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