Overmuch Quotes

Usually I object when someone makes overmuch of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts. - Margaret Bourke-White

The onion being eaten, yea though it be boyled, causeth head-ache, hurteth the eyes, and maketh a man dimme sighted, dulleth the senses, ingendreth windinesse, and provoketh overmuch sleepe, especially being eaten raw. - John Gerard

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. - Samuel E. Morison

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. - Alexander Hamilton

May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend. - William Butler Yeats

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. - Arthur Eddington