Famous quotes containing the words glorious and/or excess:
“What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction it affords!”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure—tangible material prosperity in this world—is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)