"A man is never so on trial as……" — Lew Wallace
"A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune."
More Excessive Quotes
- 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… — Roland Barthes
- The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that… — 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… — 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… — Unknown Author
- Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which… — Emile Durkheim