Extremes Quotations
Extremes
From WikiquoteExtremes are measures falling far outside the norm, and may include drastic or foolhardy expedients undertaken in a crisis.
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- Should there be danger of such an event — should he be the cause of adding a single more trouble to her existence — Why, I think, I shall be justified in going to extremes!
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847); Heathcliff (Chapter XIV).
- To "go to extremes" is ever symptomatic of genius and greatness.
- Arthur Desmond, Might is Right (1890).
- Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens.
- Billy Joel, "I Go To Extremes", Storm Front (1989).
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 246.
- The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook.
- Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming.
- Avoid extremes.
- Attributed to Cleobulus of Lindos.
- Thus each extreme to equal danger tends,
Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
- Abraham Cowley, Davideis, Book III, line 205.
- Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, Greatness.
- Extremes are faulty and proceed from men: compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
- Jean de La Bruyère, The Characters or Manners of the Present Age, Chapter XVII.
- Extremes meet.
- Honoré Mercier, Tableaux de Paris, Volume IV. Title of Chapter 348.
- And feel by turns the bitter change
Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), II. 599.
- He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
- Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book I, Chapter XXVI.
- Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such
Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), line 385.
- Extremes in nature equal good produce;
Extremes in man concur to general use.
- Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle III, line 161.
- Extrema primo nemo tentavit loco.
- No one tries extreme remedies at first.
- Seneca, Agamemnon, 153.
- Like to the time o' the year between the extremes
Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.
- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act I, scene 5, line 51.
- Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress,
But always resolute in most extremes.
- William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I (c. 1588-90), Act IV, scene 1, line 37.
- Who can be patient in such extremes?
- William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III (c. 1591), Act I, scene 1, line 215.
- And where two raging fires meet together,
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury:
Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act II, scene 1, line 133.
- O brother, speak with possibilities,
And do not break into these deep extremes.
- William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (c. 1584-1590), Act III, scene 1.
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Contents
- 1 Geography and astronomy
- 2 Mathematics
- 3 Science and technology
- 4 Sports and entertainment
- 5 Literature
- 6 Other uses
- 7 See also
Geography and astronomy
Mathematics
- An extreme value is the largest or smallest element of a set
Science and technology
Science
- Extreme weather, severe or unseasonal weather
- Extremism, ideas or actions beyond what is deemed acceptable
- Extremophile, an organism which thrives in or requires "extreme" conditions
Technology
- Extreme Networks, a California-based networking hardware company
- Extreme Programming, a software engineering methodology
- Xtreme Mod, a peer-to-peer file sharing software for Windows based on eMule
Sports and entertainment
Sports
- Extreme sport, a sport featuring speed, height, danger or spectacular stunts
- Extreme Sports Channel, a Netherlands television channel
- Extreme Championship Wrestling, a former wrestling promotion
- Xtreme Pro Wrestling
- Los Angeles Xtreme, a defunct XFL franchise
- Xtreme Turf, an artificial turf or synthetic grass system
Music
- Extreme (band), an American band
- Extreme (album), an album by Extreme
- Xtreme (group), a bachata duo
- Xtreme (album), an album by Xtreme
- Extremes (album), an album by Collin Raye
- Extreme Records, a record label
- Agostino Carollo or X-Treme, an Italian singer, DJ, and producer
Entertainment
- Extreme (CSI: Miami)
- Extreme (TV series)
- Extremes, a UK television series
- Extreme (Travel Channel series), a US television series
- Extreme Associates, an adult film production company
- Dance Dance Revolution Extreme, a music video game by Konami
- Extreme Paintbrawl, a first-person shooter video game
- Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (North America), a music video game by Konami
Literature
- Extreme Studios, a defunct studio of Image Comics
- Adam X the X-Treme, a Marvel Comics character
- Extreme, an autobiography by Sharon Osbourne
Other uses
- Extreme Pita, a Canadian-based restaurant chain
- Chevrolet S-10 xtreme
See also
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