#Excess Quotes

“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!”

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

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

“An overflow of good converts to bad.”

“All surfeit is the father of much fast.”

“Can one desire too much of a good thing?”

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

“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.”

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

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

“The sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousness.”

“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.”

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

“Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Too much is just enough.”

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

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

“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”

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

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

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

“Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.”

“Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.”

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

“Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”

“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.”

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

“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”

“Too much of a good thing can be taxing.”

“Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.”

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

“You took too much man, too much, too much.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Excess weakens the spirits.”