Excessive Quotes

301 quotes by 266 authors

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition… — B.F. Skinner
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which… — Victor Hugo
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Excessive severity misses its own aim. — Publilius Syrus
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely… — Albert Einstein
It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are… — Thomas Paine
Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels. — Jim Ryun
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. — Karl Abraham
Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and… — Roger Angell
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each… — Kadmi Cohen
For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical… — Mariano Rajoy
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it… — Paulo Freire
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias. — Augustus William Hare
Dark with excessive bright. — John Milton
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which… — Bernard de Mandeville
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of… — Theodore Dalrymple
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal. — Ignatius Loyola
I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing… — Vincent Nichols
I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation. — Elliott Erwitt

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