All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what… — Kate O'Beirne Copy Share Image
Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or… — Plato Copy Share Image
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
In specific terms I don't think I could make any suggestions, but in general terms I believe that it is because Canadians… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
In the fetus, or a really young child, all the different brain areas are connected to each other, diffusely. And as the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The major changes that will be occurring within the new merged partnership are exciting in many ways. First, we will have the… — Alan Armstrong Copy Share Image
In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practically always very nearly atmospheric,… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals… — Tom Shales 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
According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me… — Heidi Murkoff Copy Share Image
Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
It's a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone's on heat. It's a strange energy. It's full of adrenalin. I funnel… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights.… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
“There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
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