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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain. -- Ambrose Bierce
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. -- Ambrose Bierce
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person. -- Horace
I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer. -- George Deukmejian
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values? -- Alan Greenspan
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them. -- Alan Watts
I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced. -- Al Yankovic
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. -- John Maynard Keynes
As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either. -- John Wooden
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. -- Robert Graves
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. -- Walter Benjamin
... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible. -- Elizabeth Bowen
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse. -- Livy
Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. -- Alan Greenspan
Itâ??s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isnâ??t it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist. -- Ann Coulter
On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me? -- Ilka Chase
The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. -- Benjamin Graham
These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls. -- Jacques Delors
But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade? -- Alan Greenspan
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. -- Samuel Butler
Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all. -- Benjamin Graham
Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in groups, without being unduly submerged in the group. -- Byron White
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. -- Sun Tzu
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another. -- M. Scott Peck
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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