EXTREMES

Related Subjects: End, Excess

1. We must remember how apt man is to extremes—rushing from credulity and weakness, to suspicion and distrust.—BULWER-LYTTON
   

2. Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of poverty.—BURKE
   

3. The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook.—THOMAS CAMPBELL, Gertrude of Wyoming
   

4. All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between these extremes.—RICHARD CECIL
   

5. That extremes beget extremes, is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.—C. C. COLTON
   

6. Thus each extreme to equal danger tends,
   Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.—ABRAHAM COWLEY, Davideis
   

7. Extremes of fortune are true wisdom's test.
   And he's of men most wise who bears them best.—BISHOP CUMBERLAND, Philemon
   

8. Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.—EMERSON,Letters and Social Aims

9. Extremes are vicious and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.—LA BRUYERE
   

10. Both in individuals, and in masses, violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate what we have over-praised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.—MACAULAY
    

11. Perfect good sense shuns all extremity,
    Content to couple wisdom with sobriety.—MOLIERE, Le Misanthrope
    

12. Avoid extremes, and shun the fault of such,
    Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.—POPE, Essay on Criticism
    

13. The fate of all extremes is such:
    Men may be read, as well as books, too much.—POPE, Moral Essays

14. Like to the time o' the year between the extremes
    Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
    

15. Who can be patient in such extremes?—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI