Pastoral Resources

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.