Excessive Quotes

301 quotes by 266 authors

Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as to expel what was being… — Hippolytus of Rome
Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple… — Margaret Foley
There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough… — Saint John Chrysostom
An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his whole right arm… — Bernardino Ramazzini
It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular… — Wilbur Olin Atwater
None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness… — Sufyan al-Thawri
It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast. — Peter Porter
To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our… — Eric Hoffer
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their… — Adam Smith
The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife — Confucius
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies. — Pope Leo XIII
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others… — P.J. O'Rourke
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a… — Lester R. Brown
Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election. — Thomas Jefferson
It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the… — James Madison
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. — Albert Einstein
Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of abnormalities of the… — Hilde Bruch
If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank,… — Peter Boettke

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