“ It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes round a corner. ”
- Leigh Hunt- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view "realistically;" that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent — war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ”
- Alexander Hamilton- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. ”
- Theodore Parker- Copy
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“ One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. ”
- Lew Wallace- Copy
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“ Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. ”
- Antisthenes- Copy
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“ The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 457
“ The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
- 615
“ There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 2.9K
“ To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
- 1K
“ We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. ”
- Randolph Silliman Bourne- Copy
- 4K
“ The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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 people were afraid of me without knowing me. ”
- Thomas Kretschmann- Copy
- 3K
“ An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. ”
- Robert Southey- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
- 860
“ Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. ”
- John Updike- Copy
- 1.8K
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