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- They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they starve with nothing.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 2
- Can one desire too much of a good thing?
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act IV, sc.1
- There's no bottom, none, in my voluptuousness: Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids, could not fill up the cistern of my lust.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act IV, sc. 3
- Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act V, sc. 2
- Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
- John Hodgman
- It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and comes to all sorts of conclusions.
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and will become as he should be.
- Jimmy Johnson
- Distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King Lear, Act IV, sc. 1
- Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 3
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