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Tag Name "Excessive" (236)

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Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect. Nor is this to be wondered at when you consider that the more fatuously vacant the mind is, the better for play. It has been observed that absolute idiots play the steadiest.
Charles Walter Simpson
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife
Confucius
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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
Arthur C. Clarke
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
Augustus William Hare
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus
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Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.
Pope Paul VI
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Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.
Mardy Grothe
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
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Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.
Swami Vivekananda
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Excessive regulation is costing America as much as $2 trillion a year. And I will end it very, very quickly.
Donald Trump
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
Alan Greenspan
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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
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Excessive severity misses its own aim.
Publilius Syrus
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Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.
John McCain
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Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
Zoroaster
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Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
Thomas Jefferson
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
Demosthenes
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I have excessive energy, tremendous energy. I have a sense of people. I can feel them, pretty much so, in a short time. I'm not afraid of death. I'm just not afraid of anything.
Cecil Williams
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Charles Caleb Colton
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton
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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 rattle!
Charles Spurgeon
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
Alexandre Dumas
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