Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

Extremes are dangerous.

Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

I can't do anything in moderation.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

In every extreme there is vice and not virtue.

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!