It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Related Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES Any virtue taken to the extreme becomes a vice; unfortunately it doesn't work the other way. JIM GENOVESE Most of us, people live life in extreme. On one extreme some people think they live for eating, on t... GIRDHAR JOSHI And so because of that and not having that information which is important to the investigation, this... AL FRASER It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an... WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extr... SUSANE COLASANTI I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they t... MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Matt broke his pinkie water skiing; he's having surgery today, ... I mean, we're all kind of extreme... DUFF MCKAGAN Intensity is the extreme application of force and strength SUNDAY ADELAJA It's not necessary to use this kind of force. They went way over the extreme. ALEJANDRO SANCHEZ The habit of intensity is not simply being passionate about your goals, but it connotes some form of... SUNDAY ADELAJA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time t... BLAISE PASCAL PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme. UNKNOWN In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of d... JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Roe is based on an extreme intrusion by the government ? literally to force a woman to continue a pr... JENNIFER BROWN The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a sta... SIMONE WEIL In San Jose, we have one extreme or the other, so this is kind of normal. JEFF HANSEN America needs wisdom, not force. It had used force, along with the West, to its extreme extent, only... SADDAM HUSSEIN The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Unless you were high up in a building or happened to glimpse it at the end of one of the big avenues... SUSAN MINOT How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human abil... GALILEO GALILEI For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme resp... RICHARD BRANSON My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I... MAGGIE ROWE One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing... EMMA GOLDMAN Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. ... JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States a... MOS DEF I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun. KELLAN LUTZ What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at ... W.E. (WILLIAM EDWIN) SANGSTER love has extreme feelings...one is being loved and the other is being hurt... RAHUL JAISWAL Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to fi... JAMES THURBER Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the ... JAMES THURBER The nature and degree of violence described by the victim and corroborated by the extent of her inju... DETECTIVE BRYAN JAMISON In years gone by ... the ones outside were more extreme .... because the ones inside have to face re... EFRAIM HALEVY Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Extreme poverty is the root cause of extreme crime. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen ... ARTHUR C. CLARKE It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen ... ARTHUR CLARKE Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. ... JAMES C. DOBSON We can define the rules of police-citizen engagement, but everyday decisions will always be made by ... RAHM EMANUEL It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rig... BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Because of the extreme nature of this situation, we have kind of weighted more toward the wind than ... JOE HARRIS Everything has to go from one extreme to the other. They can't just say, 'Wife Swap' made me a somew... BRAD BRADLEY The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all... HENRI MATISSE Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery...brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wh... EUDORA WELTY The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. The Internet is being targeted more and more by those who create sites that specialize in sexual vio... DAVE JOHNSTON The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty. HUGH EVANS Life is the sum total of our involvement in it with our ourselves. DAN WALDSCHMIDT Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the ... NAPOLEON BONAPARTE It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or, you're exhaling at the bar which is ex... ONYI ANYADO All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in fa... SAM HOUSTON The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. JOHN B. S. HALDANE Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying... TONI MORRISON My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget. VERONICA ROTH Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule o... T.F. HODGE While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness... ABRAHAM LINCOLN The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. .... BERTRAND RUSSELL It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth... HOWARD PYLE The extreme right wing won, once again. That is only one part of the party, but they control the par... CARL SCHMID Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal ANDREW FAIRCHILD We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck. PARUL WADHWA What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Which one is the truth, sir? Which period do you mean, son? TOBA BETA The ability to exert extreme force or strength in every goal-oriented task will restore to you, your... SUNDAY ADELAJA A walk?" said Catharine. "One foot in front of the other," said Newt, "through leaves, over bri... KURT VONNEGUT JR. Otherwise, the people will be living on top of each other, under extreme weather conditions, which w... KRIS JANOWSKI My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one. GARY CHERONE May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme ... CAMPBELL BROWN For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an op... RAQUEL CEPEDA Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true ... EUGENE EDWARDS If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true ... EUGENE EDWARDS For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the... SAMUEL BUTLER Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL What is it with you and girls, Adrian, dear? Why do they either mean nothing to you or everything? I... RICHELLE MEAD One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES Unless the Supreme Court now reverses the extreme position that five justices took in 2000, partly b... DOUGLAS JOHNSON we were fleeing the extreme sprawl that had become the suburbs of Detroit. WILL DANFORTH A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fool... ANUJ SOMANY Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers... ANUJ SOMANY Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t... CHANDRABABU V.S. Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo... CHANDRABABU V.S. I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature,
and whose sublimity is blended wi... ANDRE-FRANCOIS DESLANDES A person's word and a man's handshake ought to mean something. Maybe you're better for not having th... JOE GLENN We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of t... SALVADOR DALI
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SIR WALTER SCOTT There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger... SIR WALTER SCOTT But with morning cool repentance came. SIR WALTER SCOTT We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. SIR WALTER SCOTT Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. SIR WALTER SCOTT Then, wearied by the uncertainty and difficulties with which each scheme appeared to be attended, he... SIR WALTER SCOTT Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. SIR WALTER SCOTT To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man... SIR WALTER SCOTT 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gamb... SIR WALTER SCOTT Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. 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answer. SIR WALTER SCOTT Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. SIR WALTER SCOTT High minds, of native pride and force,
Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;
Fear, for their sc... SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me. SIR WALTER SCOTT A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. SIR WALTER SCOTT Contentions fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. SIR WALTER SCOTT Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land? SIR WALTER SCOTT But with the morning cool repentance came. SIR WALTER SCOTT Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it. SIR WALTER SCOTT Do what you should, not what you may. SIR WALTER SCOTT After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.] SIR WALTER SCOTT A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend. SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my n... SIR WALTER SCOTT The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The... SIR WALTER SCOTT There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. SIR WALTER SCOTT Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. SIR WALTER SCOTT For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. SIR WALTER SCOTT Land of my sires! what mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band
That knits me to thy rugged... SIR WALTER SCOTT He is most powerful who governs himself. SIR WALTER SCOTT Consider an enemy may become a friend. SIR WALTER SCOTT Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils. SIR WALTER SCOTT As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully. SIR WALTER SCOTT 'Tis an old tale, and often told;
But did my fate and wish agree,
Ne'er had been read, in stor... SIR WALTER SCOTT Necessity--thou best of peacemakers,
As well as surest prompter of invention. SIR WALTER SCOTT Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and ... SIR WALTER SCOTT Some feelings are to mortals given,
With less of earth in them than heaven. SIR WALTER SCOTT Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains,
Winning from Reason's hand the reins,
Pity and woe! for su... SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion. SIR WALTER SCOTT Hatreds are the cinders of affection. SIR WALTER RALEGH Vengeance to God alone belongs;
But, when I think of all my wrongs
My blood is liquid flame! SIR WALTER SCOTT Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! SIR WALTER SCOTT Within that awful volume lies
The mystery of mysteries!
Happiest they of human race,
To ... SIR WALTER SCOTT O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy wo... SIR WALTER SCOTT The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of
Hamlet, the character of the Prince of... SIR WALTER SCOTT Contentious fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. SIR WALTER SCOTT What skilful limner e'er would choose
To paint the rainbow's varying hues,
Unless to mortal it... SIR WALTER SCOTT Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare. SIR WALTER SCOTT He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. SIR WALTER SCOTT My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. SIR WALTER SCOTT Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
... SIR WALTER SCOTT And honeysuckle loved to crawl
Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. SIR WALTER SCOTT Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail--
Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings wel... SIR WALTER SCOTT Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry ... SIR WALTER SCOTT The will to do, the soul to dare. SIR WALTER SCOTT And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last. SIR WALTER SCOTT To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. SIR WALTER SCOTT O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at ran... SIR WALTER SCOTT And let our barks across the pathless flood
Hold different courses. SIR WALTER SCOTT With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. SIR WALTER SCOTT The summer dawn's reflected hue
To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,
Mildly and soft the weste... SIR WALTER SCOTT Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll,
And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole,
Ye... SIR WALTER SCOTT Art thou a friend to Roderick? SIR WALTER SCOTT Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea,
The orange flower perfumes the bow... SIR WALTER SCOTT Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but... SIR WALTER SCOTT The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in... SIR WALTER SCOTT That day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth shall pass away. SIR WALTER SCOTT And come he slow, or come he fast, SIR WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. SIR WALTER SCOTT I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through SIR WALTER SCOTT The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, ... SIR WALTER SCOTT I am enamoured of my journal SIR WALTER SCOTT Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown SIR WALTER SCOTT True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven. SIR WALTER SCOTT I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me SIR WALTER SCOTT He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by. SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon. SIR WALTER SCOTT Scared out of his seven senses. SIR WALTER SCOTT O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive! SIR WALTER SCOTT The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new. SIR WALTER SCOTT Haste, holy Friar,
Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!
Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
... SIR WALTER SCOTT It [true love] is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, ... SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth wh... SIR WALTER SCOTT England was merry England, when
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
'Twas Christmas broach... SIR WALTER SCOTT In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand. SIR WALTER SCOTT In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven. SIR WALTER SCOTT Delightful praise!--like summer rose,
That brighter in the dew-drop glows,
The bashful maiden'... SIR WALTER SCOTT Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace. SIR WALTER SCOTT St. Leon raised his kindling eye,
And lifts the sparkling cup on high;
"I drink to one," he sa... SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour o... SIR WALTER SCOTT Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. SIR WALTER SCOTT Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in
a tree; it will be growing, Jock, ... SIR WALTER SCOTT Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has
received one, proclaim it. SIR WALTER SCOTT Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary. SIR WALTER SCOTT It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own
impetuosity. SIR WALTER SCOTT It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.] SIR WALTER SCOTT It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none. SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries. SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much
more disgraceful to write one thi... SIR WALTER SCOTT If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will
never be in want; if according to the... SIR WALTER SCOTT I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business. SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it. SIR WALTER SCOTT He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless. SIR WALTER SCOTT He who profits by a crime, commits it. SIR WALTER SCOTT He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than
yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he ... SIR WALTER SCOTT He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him. SIR WALTER SCOTT He who asks with timidity invites a refusal. SIR WALTER SCOTT