Excessive Quotes

301 quotes by 266 authors

With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the… — Charles Tilly
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw… — Andrew Mellon
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw… — Andrew Mellon
The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality… — Kate Braverman
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune. — Lew Wallace
Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation… — Herbert Spencer
For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity… — Aristotle
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly… — Robertson Davies
More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking. — Mark Twain
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers
No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ. — Henry Allen Ironside
Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much. — Swami Vivekananda
...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese… — Bernardino Ramazzini
I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that… — Thomas Kretschmann
Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your… — Richard J. Foster
Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the… — Pliny the Elder
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal

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