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 | Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 26 likes |
 | Women have twice more hunger, four times more shame, six times more courage and eight times more erotic passion than men. — Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher 17 likes |
 | I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 12 likes |
 | Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 10 likes |
 | If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 8 likes |
 | Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 8 likes |
 | Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 6 likes |
 | The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 6 likes |
 | I’ll go through life either first class or third, but never in second. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 6 likes |
 | The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 5 likes |
| Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 5 likes |
 | The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three. — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 5 likes |
| Extreme straightness is as bad as crookedness. Extreme cleverness is as bad as folly. Extreme fluency is as bad as stammering. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 5 likes |
 | Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 4 likes |
 | Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
| A variety of colors makes man’s eye blind; a diversity of sounds makes man’s ear deaf; a mixture of flavors makes man’s palate dull. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 4 likes |
 | Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. — Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer 4 likes |
 | In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] (The Cave, 2000) 4 likes |
 | We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 4 likes |
 | Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 4 likes |
 | For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
| Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 3 likes |
| Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | To be successful you have to act big, think big, and talk big. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 3 likes |
 | Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
 | Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. — Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher 3 likes |
 | You can't know too much, but you can say too much. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 3 likes |
 | There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 1841-1935, 3 likes |
 | A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 3 likes |
 | Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 3 likes |
 | I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits. — Alan Greenspan, 1926-, American economist 3 likes |
 | Can one desire too much of a good thing? — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ As You Like It 3 likes |
 | The strongest things most especially and decidedly hurt man, whether in health or in disease. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 2 likes |
 | Too black for heav'n, and yet too white for hell. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 2 likes |
 | The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 2 likes |
 | I'm living beyond my means, but I can afford it. — Sam Goldwyn, 1879-1974, American film producer 2 likes |
 | Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 2 likes |
 | Excessive severity breeds hatred, excessive leniency weakens authority. — Saadi Shirazi, 1210-1292, Persian poet 2 likes |
 | Can we ever have too much of a good thing? — Miguel Cervantes, 1547-1616, Spanish writer 2 likes |
| The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 2 likes |
 | Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
 | If you do too much, it’s going to lose its effectiveness. |
 | Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos. |
 | Sin should be a mountain of pork to get in, a pond of wine to dive in and swim, not a small snack. |
 | Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men. |
 | I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man. |
 | A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant. |
 | A little remembering is all right, but too much is a disease I am terribly prone to. |
 | I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity. |
 | In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. |
 | Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness. — Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher (about Hölderlin) |
 | My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live. |
 | As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction |
 | Exaggeration is the lie of the honest man. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | The one thing the world can never get enough of is hype. |
 | Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. |
 | In order to move others deeply, we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. |
 | The best way to cancel the revolution is to ask for too much. — Comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791, main figure of the French Revolution |
 | To overvalue something is a form of lying. |
 | There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little. |
 | Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. |
Funny Quotes
 | The report of my death was an exaggeration. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 6 likes |
 | If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School. |
Stupid Quotes
| The White House is saying Donald Trump has “zero percent chance” of being elected. Isn't that a little high? — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | It seems that excessive freedom leads to excessive enslavement. Η άγαν ελευθερία έοικε εις άγαν δουλείαν μεταβάλλειν. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher ‐ Republic 18 likes |
 | Much learning does not teach the mind. Πολυμαθίη νόον ου διδάσκει. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 11 likes |
 | Excessive desires create excessive poverties. Μείζονες γαρ ορέξεις μείζονας ενδείας ποιεύουσιν. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
| Everything in excess is opposed to nature. Παν το πολύ τη φύσει πολέμιον. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 6 likes |
| When one exceeds the due measure, the most pleasurable things become the most unpleasant. Ει τις υπερβάλλοι το μέτριον, τα επιτερπέστατα ατερπέστατα αν γίγνοιτο. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | If the sweet is too much, it is no sweet any more. Το γαρ ηδύ, εάν πολύ, ου τι γε ηδύ. 5 likes |
 | Excess of passion brings no glory or honor to men. Έρωτες υπέρ μεν άγαν ελθόντες ουκ ευδοξίαν ουδ’ αρετάν παρέδωκαν ανδράσιν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Medea 4 likes |
Proverbs
 | Even the priest gets tired of many “Lord have mercy” chants. 3 likes |
 | To the great evils great remedies. 2 likes |
 | Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. 2 likes |
