"Too much" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... developed resourcefulness within him. In fact, Stas was taller and stronger than most boys of his age. It was enough to glance at his eyes to surmise that in case of any adventure he would sin more from too much audacity than from timidity. In his fourteenth year, he was one of the best swimmers in Port Said, which meant not a little, for the Arabs and negroes swim like fishes. Shooting from carbines of a small caliber, and only with ...
— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... trying to dispose of two thick slices of bread and butter before recitation, was too much occupied to answer. ...
— Harper's Young People, August 10, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... aware that Socrates thought it necessary to acquaint the worthy Xantippe with the reasons for his conduct," remarked Mr. Everidge suavely. "The feminine mind is too much disposed to jump to hasty conclusions to prove of any assistance in deciding matters of importance. The masculine brain, on the contrary, takes time for calm deliberation and weighs the pros and cons in ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... says that Odysseus carried certain winds in his ship, confined in leathern bags, but Homer never speaks of confining the affections. It were but right that those who exhort us against inordinate affections, and setting our hearts too much upon the world and its vanities, would tell us how to ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... if I am not taking too much of your time why please let me hear from you at once as I would like very much to get out of the south as quick as possible for there is nothing here for a colored ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various
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