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There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.
— Lancelot Hogben
Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.
— Carolina Herrera
There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.
— Gaston Leroux
Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.
— Rose Macaulay
A large percentage of what we think of when we talk about stress-related diseases are disorders of excessive stress-responses.
— Robert M. Sapolsky
Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.
— Swami Vivekananda
Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!
— Maurice Duplessis
Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.
— Pope Paul VI
No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.
— Henry Allen Ironside
In excessive griefs, as in great tempests, the abyss is found between the tops of the loftiest waves
— Alexandre Dumas
Excessive severity misses its own aim.
— Publilius Syrus
TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.
— Alain Ducasse
free of the five evils which assail men: excessive sleep, fear, anger, weakness of mind, and procrastination.
— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
But it was I, yes I, who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics!
— Woody Allen
The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.
— Malcolm Gladwell
A princess and a tiger, huh? Such excessive names! Our names mean 'monkey' and 'lewd!' I'm so jealous!
— Tite Kubo
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
— P. J. O'Rourke
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
— Pope Leo XIII
You can redirect your excessive sex drive towards being a renowned genius.
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson
Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.
— T. Colin Campbell
Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.
— Dalai Lama
Solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public ... [p. 7]
— Shirley Hazzard
I was overwhelmed by the smells. Slow, heavy odours, tenaciously biting, forming a strange mixture of excessive life and death, of birth and decay.
— Jean-Christophe Grange
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.
— Joseph Conrad
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
— Rick Perry
Whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom
— Louise Erdrich
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
— Isaac D'Israeli
Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.
— Joan Didion
That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.
— St. Jerome
When the media enjoy such excessive profits from this mass hysteria, what incentive do they have to restrain it?
— T. Rafael Cimino
To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
— Thomas Aquinas
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.
— Calvin Coolidge
This is what I term a reduction lifestyle - reduce excessive consumption, unnecessary obligations, and overbearing clutter. When
— Cristin Frank
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
— William Blake
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
— Saint Ignatius
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
— Karl Abraham
The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.
— Sara Coleridge
It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.
— Johann Gottfried Herder
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Do not practise excessive humility.
— John Todd
A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that,
— Kate Winslet
Dark with excessive bright.
— John Milton
only a foolish asceticism, usually vicarious, makes us continue to insist on work in excessive quantities now that the need no longer exists.
— Bertrand Russell
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
— David McCullough
A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.
— Helen Cresswell
The idea of excessive diversification is madness.
— Charlie Munger
Their excessive consumption of fiction was an essential distraction from their broken home.
— Michael Ebner
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
— Albert Einstein
Matt Smith?" I said. "Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris.
— Patricia Briggs
Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
— Edmund Phelps
There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself ... You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it
— Robert Doisneau
Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state.
— Tom Holland
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited.
— Bryant McGill
Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people.
— Michael Spencer
There was a time we tormented one another with excessive honesty in the naive belief it would save us.
— Stanislaw Lem
My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.
— Berthe Morisot
Excessive freedom is no less a flight from difficulty than is an overarching order.
— Lawrence J. Hatab
Excessive politeness fools your mind.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
— Arthur C. Clarke
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
— Catherine Helen Spence
Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.
— Franz Grillparzer
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
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
Excessive religiosity is killing so many religious people knowingly or unknowingly
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah