Excess Quotes

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

The sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousness.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, luxuriant, it is unproductive. The fertile flowers are single, not double.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

Excess weakens the spirits.

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!

You took too much man, too much, too much.

Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

Too much is just enough.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.[Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.