Excessive Quotations
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
George Eliot
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus
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
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
William James
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton
Excessive Translations
excessive in Afrikaans is ekstreem
excessive in Dutch is extreem, buitensporig, excessief
excessive in Italian is esuberante, esuberante, libertino
excessive in Latin is immodicus
excessive in Norwegian is overdreven
excessive in Portuguese is excessivo
excessive in Spanish is excesivo, licencioso, desmesurado
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