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Blasted with excess of light
View quotes by Thomas Gray

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
View quotes by Cicero

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization
View quotes by Alphonse De Lamartine

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness
View quotes by Metastasio

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.
View quotes by Calvin Trillin

Never order food in excess of your body weight.
View quotes by Erma Bombeck

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
View quotes by Horace

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
View quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

The Nemesis of excess in athletics is professionalism, which is the death of all true sport.
View quotes by E N Gardiner

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
View quotes by Neil Kinnock

At Oxford we drank to ludicrous and revolting excess and threw up over some of the most beautiful buildings in Britain.
View quotes by Steven Norris

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
View quotes by W Somerset Maugham

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are dupes of pretended patriots.
View quotes by Elbridge Gerry

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
View quotes by Albert Camus

We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.
View quotes by Jean Baudrillard

Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude.
View quotes by Jean Baudrillard

Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other
View quotes by Metastasio



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