#excess

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

— Neil Kinnock

#fills #fine #graveyards #loyalty #political

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#fine #life #living #make #worth

I know love is begun by time, And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it. And nothing is at a like goodness still. For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, Dies in his own too-much. That we would do, We should do when we would, for this “would” changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents. And then this “should” is like a spendthrift sigh That hurts by easing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#procrastination #change

Excessive fear is always powerless. ↗

— Aeschylus

#always #excessive #fear #powerless

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. ↗

— Aeschylus

#defense #excess #great #his #justice

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. ↗

— James Baker

#british #carbon #carbon dioxide #companies #dioxide

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ↗

— James Baldwin

#beliefs #confronted #driven #equal #excesses

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. ↗

— Sean Bean

#around #baggage #carry #character #day

Pride and excess bring disaster for man. ↗

— Xun Zi

#disaster #excess #man #pride

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. ↗

— William Blake

#excessive #joy #laughs #sorrow #weeps