145 Quotes About Excess

Write on your doors the saying wise and old,"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere-- "Be bold;Be not too bold!" Yet better the excessThan the defect; better the more than less;Better like Hector in the field to die,Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine.

Nothing is more self-limiting than going to extremes.

...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113)

Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.

Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.

It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.

Having too much of anything results in chaos, confusion and clutter.