Pastoral Resources

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

You're in a mess, and in excess.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.