Quotes by Excess Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others? Laozi taoism excess order Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way. Laozi taoism excess world If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour. Linus Torvalds excess running thinking Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?" "Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess. Lisa Kleypas excess things-in-life knowing My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess. L'Wren Scott excess balance keys the excess of all good things is mischievous. Lydia M. Child mischievous excess good-things It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words. Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable excess too-much business Excess is the common substitute for energy. Marianne Moore excess energy common Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. Marcus Tullius Cicero excess philosophical positive Sensual excess drives out pity in man. Marquis de Sade excess sensual men The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. Marty Meehan excess congress today How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery! Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley excess strange feelings I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I pull on a pair in the dressing room, afraid they will now, as then, get stuck at my hips and there I will stand, absurd, staring at the excess of hips that should, if I were a good person, be „slim“. Marya Hornbacher excess jeans eye Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish. Mason Cooley excess pleasure giving The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire. Mason Cooley excess extravagance desire We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess. Mark Twain excess ice-cream ice The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does. Mason Cooley excess eye doe Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea. Mason Cooley excess austerity causes When sages commend excess, Desire is sick. Mason Cooley excess sick desire The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. Menander excess goodness evil «4567891011121314»
