Too Much Of A Good Thing Quotes

• Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Wine, Scotch

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Drinking, Wine, Scotch

  "Facepaint, champagne and antelope skin - writers' oddball quirks revealed" by Charlotte Seager, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2015.

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• Can one desire too much of a good thing?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Desire, Too Much

  William Shakespeare (1860). “As You Like it”, p.79

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• A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing.

  Dick King-Smith

  Doe, Littles, Too Much

  Dick King-Smith (2015). “Ace: The Very Important Pig”, p.64, Yearling

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• There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

  Michelle Gomez

  Too Much, Good Things

  "Doctor Who's Michelle Gomez Talks Missy's Resurrection, Her 'Friendship' With The Doctor, And Red Herrings". Interview with Scott Collura, za.ign.com. September 21, 2015.

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• Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Appreciation

  Goodness Had Nothing to DoWith It ch. 21 (1959)

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• Too many cooks spoil the broth

  Jane Austen

  Food, Haste Makes Waste, Chinese

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.2567, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Too much of a good thing is just about right

  Jerry Garcia

  Too Much, Good Things

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• Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Too Much, Good Things

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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• The fears of recession in the aftermath of Black Monday have turned to fears of the economy racing ahead too fast, with inflation edging up and a substantial current account deficit... People understandably feel more confident about their future than they've done for decades, but as a result they have been borrowing more and saving less... Coming on top of a massive income investment boom, it's all been just a bit too much of a good thing.

  Nigel Lawson

  Monday, People, Black

  Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, October 13, 1988.

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• As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

  Karl Rove

  Education, Hymns, People

  The New Yorker, February 19, 2001.

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• People may have too much of a good thing:
  Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

  John Wolcot

  Eggs, People, May

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 617), 1922.

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• Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

  Warren Buffett

  Success, Business, Why Not

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• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

  Walter Benjamin

  Happiness, Beauty, Ideas

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.239, Harvard University Press

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• Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short for her weight and her clothes are too small for the volume of flesh she carries.

  Janet Evanovich

  Clothes, Weight, Flesh

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Plum Lucky”, p.7, Macmillan

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