A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
John McCarthy

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
Catherine Helen Spence

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
Demosthenes

Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus

Excessive literary production is a social offense.
George Eliot

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.
Kurt Student

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.
Paul Tsongas

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
Wendell Willkie

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.
Thomas Kretschmann

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
Francesca Annis

If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
John Shadegg

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

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
J. William Fulbright

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
Theodore Parker

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
Kate Smith

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
Benjamin Graham