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
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
Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim… That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If only happiness when in excess, bubbles over, and can contaminate others; with only a few happy ones; in just a few… — Anonymous 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 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
Many Christians are either woefully deficient in their knowledge of Scripture or noticeably devoid of any experience of God's power. The Lord… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet… — Curtis White Copy Share Image
When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy?… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
What began as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess home inventories that have… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and… — Plato Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
“Now take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one single delight, and cast it entire into a single man… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
O Christ Jesus, really present upon the altar, I cast myself down at Your feet; may all adoration be offered to You… — Columba Marmion Copy Share Image
Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the… — Timothy L. O'Brien Copy Share Image
![“He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.” quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/024/georges-louis-leclerc-comte-de_abuse_he-man-abuses-equally-other-animals-and_2997624.png)
