Excess Quote by Titus Maccius Plautus Download Open image “In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.” — Titus Maccius Plautus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excess
Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own. — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“All the truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you—and they’re even better when done to excess.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“We are rarely in danger of examining to excess, especially when the subject is the shape of our own lives.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are:… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“GRU. O riddle for the executioner [4], as I guess it will turn out; they'll be so pinking you with goads, as you carry… — Titus Maccius Plautus Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all. — Rick Aster Copy Share Image
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past… — Henry Paulson 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 the wildness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
