Surfeit Quotes

20 quotes by 16 authors

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. — Heraclitus
Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety… — Plutarch
The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done… — Isidore of Seville
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes… — Gunter Grass
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd… — John Milton
It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't… — Chris Adrian
For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated… — William Shakespeare
No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted… — Shashi Tharoor
People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved… — Benito Mussolini
In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay… — William Beebe
The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. — Aristotle
Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I… — William Shakespeare
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit,… — Napoleon Bonaparte
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our… — William Shakespeare
Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their… — William Shakespeare
A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,â€ he said, with annoying clarity. — Jasper Fforde
It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe — Christopher Paolini
They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. — William Shakespeare
In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized behavior are still… — Martha Beck
Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a… — Michael Redhill

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