Ellen Glasgow Quotes

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Be not righteous overmuch.

In every extreme there is vice and not virtue.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity" and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.