Pastoral Resources

There is moderation even in excess.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.