Excessive Quotes

301 quotes by 266 authors

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its… — Charles Spurgeon
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses… — Aristotle
What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC or Marvel or… — Mark Waid
On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in… — Broda Otto Barnes
Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry. — Mel White
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. — Demosthenes
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but… — Alexis de Tocqueville
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. — Isaac D'Israeli
The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of… — Claude Bernard
By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains… — Robert Macfarlane
. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little… — Vincent de Paul
Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear.… — Vincent de Paul
Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur. — Vincent de Paul
Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their… — Claude Bernard
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the… — William J. Brennan
Ask the gods nothing excessive. — Aeschylus
Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in. — Dalai Lama
Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel. — James A. Baldwin
We are very encouraged that the results from our monitoring of air quality and drinking water conditions in both New York and near the Pentagon… — Christine Todd Whitman

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