"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation……" — W. Somerset Maugham
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
More Acquiring Quotes
- I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once… — Kevin Bacon
- President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. — John O. Brennan
- The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other… — John O. Brennan
- We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us… — Albert Camus
- In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial… — Unknown Author
- Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. — Mahatma Gandhi
- If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their… — Charles Darwin
- In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate… — William James
- For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential… — Adolf Hitler
- Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have… — Greg LeMond
- The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts,… — Seraphim of Sarov