Extremes Quotes
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Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
Thomas Hood
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There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices − that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue − the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.
Aristotle
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I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.
Noah Benjamin Lennox
Animal Collective
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Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.
Virginia Woolf
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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
John Anthony Frusciante
Ataxia
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Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.
Camille Flammarion
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I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.
Courteney Cox
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Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
Klemens von Metternich
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Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.
Alice James
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Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.
John Dalton
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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.
Vladimir Lenin
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Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
Aristotle
