Excessive Quotes

301 quotes by 266 authors

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. — Francis Bacon
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little,… — Roland Barthes
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no… — Conrad Black
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. — William Blake
Excessive fear is always powerless. — Aeschylus
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more… — Christian Nestell Bovee
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one. — Francesca Annis
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. — Antisthenes
Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being. — Nicola Salvi
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general… — Emile Durkheim
No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a… — William Lyon Mackenzie
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm… — Dalai Lama
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty. — Walter Savage Landor
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the… — James Bovard
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. — David McCullough
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the… — Edward Jenner
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking… — Henry David Thoreau
Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta… — Astley Cooper

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