Quotes About Surfeit

And a surfeit of checklists, coupled with unscrupulous drug reps, is, Gary said, a dreadful combination.     There

I shall continue to be anxious about him until he can permit himself some distraction and allow his wound to heal; nothing can do this but acceptance of the inevitable, lapse of time, and surfeit of grief.

Even these feasts have their surfeit. Our delight in reason degenerates into idolatry of the herald.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

They surfeited with honey and beganTo loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a littleMore than a little is by much too much.

as a class it is suffering, one could argue, from guilt, anxiety, depression, shame, a surfeit of everything, a sense of irredeemable criminal culpability, and so on. So to put this class out of its misery would be to relieve the individuals in that class from that horrible psychic burden, and possibly release them to a fuller happier life as guilt-free humans on a planet of equally guilt-free humans.

One [belief] is that violence is caused by a deficit of morality and justice. On the contrary, violence is often caused by a surfeit of morality and justice, at least as they are conceived in the minds of the perpetrators. Steven Pinker

we can never have enough of that which we really don't want

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

a multitudinous mess of life's unnecessities.

The restless anguish of regrets, The weariness caused by so much futility, The surfeit even of imagined things

I tend to overdo things.

friend of mine says you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one.

You can always take more than nothing

There is too much too much too much of everything. We have enough too. More than enough. We've had enough.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. Not only because it can always be added to, but because it is already too much. The collector's need is precisely for excess, for surfeit, for profusion. It's too much—and it's just enough for me. … A collection is always more than is necessary.

You get too much at last of everything: of sunsets, of cabbages, of love.

I'll tell you, what the world doesn't need is another Joe Bonamassa DVD.

Things need shaking up when American women feel endangered even as Yosemite bears lumber around belching, their eyes glazed with surfeit, their pelts covered in Oreo crumbs.

Nothing doth sooner breed a distaste or satiety than plenty.

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