Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
“I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess — John Selden Copy Share Image
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects. — James Young Simpson Copy Share Image
This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess. — Terence Copy Share Image
She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, as William Blake said. Yet only if it is the excess of… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of… — Cristina Nehring Copy Share Image
Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine.… — Stan Rice Copy Share Image
Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
Remember what Teddy Roosevelt did. Yes, he took on what he saw as the excesses in the economy, but he also stood… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa,… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
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