Leo Rosten Quotes

Too much is the same as not enough.

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

There is never enough where nought is left.

In all abundance there is lack.

Less is even less, and more is still not quite enough.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

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

Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.

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

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

Less is more only when more is too much.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.

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

Less is only more where more is no good.

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

There's not enough of me left over.