These things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt, and hesitation.
—The Talmud
Showing posts with label excess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label excess. Show all posts
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Sunday, August 01, 2021
Monday, September 09, 2019
Post #2911
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
—William Shakespeare
—William Shakespeare
Friday, September 06, 2019
Post #2910
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date.
—Charles Caleb Colton
—Charles Caleb Colton
Thursday, September 05, 2019
Monday, May 14, 2018
Monday, February 20, 2017
Post #2276
If a man get a fever, or a pain in the head with overdrinking, we are subject to curse the wine, when we should rather impute it to ourselves for the excess.
—Erasmus
—Erasmus
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Post #1353
The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.
—Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
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