Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning Hamilton

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
James Madison

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
Arleigh Burke

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
Jim Cooper

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
Charles Krauthammer

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
Isaac Watts

How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.
Auberon Herbert

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
John Calvin

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.
Bob Metcalfe

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
Vladimir Nabokov

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!
Roberta Williams

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
Derek Jacobi

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
Marv Levy

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
John Desmond Bernal

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
Marcus Terentius Varro

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted W. Engstrom

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
Mike Krzyzewski

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.
Rita Rudner