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William Shakespeare4 quotes
If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die. — William Shakespeare · 1602Can one desire too much of a good thing? — William Shakespeare · 1616They surfeited with honey and began
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much. — William Shakespeare · 1597They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. — William Shakespeare · 1598William Blake2 quotes
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake · 1793You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. — William Blake · 1794Democritus1 quote
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not. — Democritus · 370 BCJohn Steinbeck1 quote
A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, and sick. — John Steinbeck · 1959Mark Twain1 quote
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. — Mark Twain · 1897Miguel de Cervantes1 quote
Can we ever have too much of a good thing? — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605Oscar Wilde1 quote
Moderation is a fatal thing...Nothing succeeds like excess. — Oscar Wilde · 1893Pierre Beaumarchais1 quote
With love, you see, even too much is not enough. — Pierre Beaumarchais · 1784