Avoid excess.
Cleobulus of Lindos
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CLEOBULUS Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.
CLEOBULUS We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a ...
CLEOBULUS Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.
LEONARD COHEN Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slaver...
PLATO To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, rev...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY My advice to girls: first, don't smoke to excess; second, don't drink to excess; third, don't marry ...
MARK TWAIN Excess of meats bringeth sickness
BIBLE Blasted with excess of light.
THOMAS GRAY The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused ma...
FRANCIS BACON SR. Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE An excess of courtesy is discourtesy
JAPANESE PROVERB The excess of pleasure is pain
ALMEIDA GARRETT The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ...
PLATO Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a d...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.
OSCAR WILDE What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most ex...
JEAN ANOUILH 'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess
JOHN SELDEN The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON OPEC became powerless the moment it sold its last barrel of excess capacity, and that was maybe a ye...
A. F. ALHAJJI The bigger question is does OPEC have excess capacity that it can tap into in the longer-term, ... I...
JASON SCHENKER His form had yet not lost / All her original brightness, nor appeared / Less than archangel ruined, ...
JOHN MILTON Nothing, in excess.
GREEK PROVERB The chipmakers are always the last guys to find out that there is excess inventory. The inventory si...
BILL MCCLEAN The president is to be commended for going to a place where too much excess liability has dramatical...
VICTOR SCHWARTZ The domestic manufacturers have capacity in excess of demand, so they have determined to lower price...
TOM LIBBY I don't understand when there's excess capacity at mainland detention centers, why there's a need to...
TONY BURKE This bill roots out excess lender subsidies in the student loan program while increasing student acc...
DON SEYMOUR Obsessive compulsive behaviors tend to be repetitive behaviors that are seen in inappropriate situat...
DR. BONNIE BEAVER We are in an intensely competitive industry. There is excess capacity. Carriers that can price produ...
EDWARD BASTIAN Our sheet metal in Decatur, we've never reached what we believe to be the full capacity there, in ex...
DAN DIMICCO Excess capacity, extremely high fuel prices, which continue to escalate, and declining fares have ne...
GEORGE MIKELSONS Excess capacity, extremely high fuel prices -- which continue to escalate -- and declining fares hav...
GEORGE MIKELSONS Excess capacity, extremely high fuel prices -- which continue to escalate -- and declining fares hav...
GEORGE MIKELSONS Excess capacity, extremely high fuel prices, which continue to escalate, and declining fares have ne...
GEORGE MIKELSONS There may be some excess fruit that producers in the Toronto area could purchase.
GEORGE ROSE We believe precipitous declines in NAND prices are being driven primarily by excess supply, as NAND ...
JAMES COVELLO The price of a cut feather in the last six months has increased quite dramatically, somewhere in exc...
IAN LITTLE A notice of excess emissions was documented at the facility on Wednesday. They (RES officials) have ...
MARK RADER After the bubble, the whole sector really started to crash and burn. But just like there was excess ...
MARK ROWEN That would literally double the number of excess deaths over the next hottest summer in the last 40 ...
LAURENCE KALKSTEIN The construction of a concrete dam can range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to in excess of a...
LEE WOOTEN We've been surprised how long it takes the Chinese to block these sites. It generally takes them in ...
LANCE COTTRELL When we plugged in (the data) from that rainfall from the 1996 flood, we achieved an elevation in ex...
KURT BAUMANN A lot of speculative excess is being blown out of this market here. It was long overdue, and finally...
MATT GIBSON It's packing much more of a punch because of the spring rains and excess vegetation.
RUTH WENSTROM We can't have such an excess.
PRIME MINISTER YURY YEKHANUROV You have to absorb that excess lift and then it should take off again.
RANDY BASELER Excess of strength alone is proof of strength
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In my opinion it's worth a significant amount more. It certainly is in excess of $50 million. It's p...
BILL SAGAN Crime is a product of social excess.
VLADIMIR LENIN Crime is a product of social excess.
LENIN, VLADIMIR Crime is a product of social excess
VLADIMIR LENIN substantially in excess of the current share price.
BRUCE SHERMAN Nothing in excess.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Excess is success.
ROBERTO CAVALLI The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
UNKNOWN The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
MENANDER Never order food in excess of your body weight.
ERMA BOMBECK The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing exceeds like excess.
AL JOURGENSEN Happiness diminishes with excess
TONY BRADY There is excess violence, excess sensationalism, excess sex. We are looking at an excessive culture,...
NORMAN LEAR An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less adv...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
OSHO The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man ...
FRANCIS BACON SR. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Today it is estimated we probably have about 25 percent excess capacity in our public shipyards,
ANTHONY PRINCIPI There are very, very few of those, if any, because government-run entities just don't have excess ca...
BRIAN BEMUS So far this year, we've donated in excess of $2.5 million in materials and cash to Habitat for Human...
JEFF NOBERS As time passes, excess capacity is being worked off and inventories are being accumulated once again...
SHERRY COOPER Having a jackpot in excess of $200 million makes it a very exciting time to be in California. The dr...
MIKE DOYLE What we have in excess is women. So if you want, we can give a few of those to you, some tens of tho...
MAO ZEDONG Even good, taken to excess is harmful.
JIM GENOVESE We needed 20 percent economic growth in the third quarter to get rid of all of the excess capacity i...
ETHAN HARRIS We might contract with them to sell excess water.
DAVID CROCKETT In charity there is no excess.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed
RALPH WALDO EMERSON That was a turning point in my career, ... We've sold in excess of 3 million (copies) in the U.S. al...
ROD STEWART The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their exces...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended
EURIPIDES Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a di...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhi...
ANAïS NIN Once we have those expenses taken care of and the board feels we have an excess of money, we push th...
BOB KLOPKE I continue to believe that Red River has excess capacity and that there was sufficient justification...
RICHARD SHELBY Economic conditions and increased competition on our routes have resulted in excess capacity which i...
BOB AYLING Do you really want to pay for all the excess functionality in Windows that distracts your employees ...
JACK MESSMAN The overall percentage we pay (the Forest Service) is in excess of 4 percent of revenues.
BILL JENSEN It's hard to get wage gains when you've got a persistently excess labor supply.
BILL CONERLY Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wor...
JOHN KEATS Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good ...
BRANDON SANDERSON There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of win...
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BION OF SMYRNA The sinews of business (or state).
BION OF SMYRNA Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 He said not Thou shalt not be tempested, th...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song ...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 I saw full surely in this and in all, that e...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 If afore us were laid together all the pain...
JULIANA OF NORWICH This is our Lord's will, ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust ...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: A...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER Its ground: God, by whose goodness ...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
MARGARET OF VALOIS Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:...
JOHN OF DAMASCUS Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety an...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 Where there is fea...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Of all the tyrants the world affords,
Our own affections are the fiercest lords.
EARL OF STERLING I must plough my furrow alone.
EARL OF ROSEBERY What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
EARL OF ROSCOMMON