Top 100 One Too Many Quotes
#1. It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.
Maggie Stiefvater
#2. So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.
Harvey Keitel
#3. Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than 12 million underfed children in the U.S.? We can make a difference.
LeAnn Rimes
#4. Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
#5. The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
John Updike
#6. Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common.
David Sedaris
#7. People have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fences. I'm just tired of it.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#8. After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many.
Glenn Turner
#9. I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.
Daniel Suarez
#10. It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
Adam Arkin
#11. Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#12. Karma has a way of catching up with you, especially when you laughed in her face one too many times.
Jay Crownover
#13. I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch.
Philip Kerr
#14. Flash Floods are about as predictable as a crazy dream after one too many fish tacos - one minutes you're fine, and the next minute a moose is floating past you wearing a fishing hat and ladies' pajamas.
Doreen Cronin
#16. Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.
Danny Meyer
#17. How the fuck would I explain that to ER personal? Yeah, my wife doesn't fuck me anymore. So I went in search of my old porn collection, but I guess I had one too many.
Alexia Stark
#18. [T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
Sonia Sotomayor
#19. He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid.
Kelley Armstrong
#20. I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.
Peter Hook
#21. In my experience, 'SNL' has Lorne Michaels, who is, you know, the captain of the ship and gives the show direction and a singular focus, whereas 'MadTV' - even in my 13 episodes there - had maybe one too many cooks and was a bit more chaotic creatively.
Taran Killam
#22. I think I had one too many drinks last night.
I need to go back and listen to the last 5-6 mins of The Wall.
I passed out.
Sienna McQuillen
#23. I'm one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind.
Bob Dylan
#24. Up until two years ago, I was one of the top-selling real estate agents in the tricounty area. I went to a convention in Boca Raton. I had one too many margaritas, met a tall, pale, and handsome man in the bar, and woke up a vampire."
"I was mistaken for a deer and got shot," I offered."
"Oh.
Molly Harper
#25. It is better to be a human without any gifts than a Jinn or a genius with one too many.
Ruskin Bond
#26. Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.
Anthony Foxx
#27. I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
#28. I've had my heart broken one too many times.
Tyra Banks
#29. Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. It happens to us all. We drink too much, take one too many hits of acid, proposition the wrong prostitute and end up by the side of some freeway, disheveled and disoriented.
Kenyon Ledford
#31. She looked both hurt and broken. As if her spirit had received one too many mortal blows.
Susan Mallery
#32. when you have something important to do, if there are two of you, you have one too many.
David McCullough
#33. Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#36. Dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would've been nice if the President would've helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee.
Bristol Palin
#37. My instincts told me that death would somehow be ... different. But my rational mind reminded me that I had probably tempted fate one too many times. At least, I thought it was my rational mind. It sure seemed like the usual voice inside my head. Thank God there was only one of them.
M.A. George
#38. One missing child is one too many.
John Walsh
#40. I, measuring his affections by my own,
Which then most sought where most might not be found,
Being one too many by my weary self,
Pursued my humor not pursuing his,
And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.
William Shakespeare
#41. I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.
Garry Kasparov
#42. It is the attendance at a great meal, with one too many courses and two too many glasses of wine, that makes civilization spin, romance bloom and friendship last.
John Mariani
#43. Life's pretty friggin' mean most of the time. People got real problems and real shit to cry about, but this isn't it. This is the good stuff, and I've been kicked by life one too many times to just ignore it when something sweet falls in my lap.
Kele Moon
#44. Look, I've got more personalities than I can use already. All you are is one too many.
Philip Roth
#45. I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.
Rupert Holmes
#46. Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all.
Hilary Mantel
#47. One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.
Anne Frank
#48. buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others - and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.
Gary Keller
#49. He could hear his granny speaking. "No one's too poor to buy soap." Of course, many people were. But in Cockbill Street they bought soap just the same. The table might not have any food on it but, by gods, it was well scrubbed. That was Cockbill Street, where what you mainly ate was your pride.
Terry Pratchett
#50. One woman violated is already too many but when I learned that it was one in three, the first thought in my head was "Why aren't more people talking about this?"
Sufe Bradshaw
#51. Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.
Ashley Montagu
#52. One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
Sheila Heti
#53. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
Jill Robinson
#54. Never let them see your fear ... it's rule number one. And it's not that I'm afraid. No, I'm not.
I don't fear death.
I've already died too many times before.
I'm a cat with nine lives and I'm already on number twelve. I'm living on borrowed time. When death wants to take me, it'll take me.
J.M. Darhower
#55. If we added up all of the special 'avoidance' diets, no one could eat anything. Many people are ruining their health by avoiding too many foods." -Ray Peat
Matt Stone
#56. There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.
David Spade
#57. I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.
Joseph Stiglitz
#58. We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
Lakshmi Pratury
#59. If any of those who were awakened by my ministry, did after that fall back (as sometimes too many did), I can truly say, their loss hath been more to me, than if one of my own children, begotten of my own body, had been going to its grave:
John Bunyan
#60. One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
Knute Rockne
#61. There was only one thing I wanted: to be left alone, without too many demand upon my person, so that for a few moments each day I might be allowed to assuage my hunger.
Muriel Barbery
#62. And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.
David Selby
#63. Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.
Warren Buffett
#64. It had to be U. U. was the only town I could still bear, the one spot in the atlas I'd already absorbed head-on. When you take too many of your critical hits in one place, that place can no longer hurt you.
Richard Powers
#65. I went to McGill University, but I didn't graduate. They won't graduate me because I didn't have a degree in any one thing. I studied everything and they were like, "You studied too many things, so we can't give you a degree."
Rachelle Lefevre
#66. People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.
Chick Corea
#67. Don't take no shit off fools. An' you judge a person by what's in 'em, not how they look. An' you do the right thing. You gotta be one of the good guys, son: 'cause there's way too many of the bad.
Garth Ennis
#68. All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.
Lucas Till
#69. The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too wide for the eye of one man. But the modern sophists are sure of everything, especially if it contradicts the Bible.
Charles Spurgeon
#70. I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.
Malcolm X
#71. A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
#72. I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this
I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
Antonin Artaud
#73. One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.
Tove Jansson
#74. We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It used to get so damp in there, we'd have a rainbow above it.
Phyllis Diller
#75. No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We've got too many dexterous drudges as it is.
Jan Neruda
#76. Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.
John Turner
#77. And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another.
John Green
#78. When we reached the lobby outside the office, moving like a pair of power walkers
no running in the halls of Green Pastures because there was too much chance of knocking over one of the many ethereal, artistic types wandering around in hip glasses with the wrong prescription ... (39)
Susan Juby
#79. When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'
Lindsay Lohan
#80. In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.
Charles Spurgeon
#81. We're too many people; that's why we have global warming ... on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.
Ted Turner
#82. I don't think there is one size that fits all [] I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.
Steve Ballmer
#83. Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.
Pablo Picasso
#84. But I would also warn against diverting too many of the Empire's resources from a flexible navy of capital ships and starfighters to massive projects that can bring the Imperial presence to only one system at a time.
Timothy Zahn
#85. Today in the early Twenty-First Century, we Americans are once again faced with the same basic choice: liberty or tyranny, freedom or servitude. However, the attitude of far too many Americans towards our problems is one of both ignorance and apathy: "I don't know and I don't care.
Chris Hambleton
#86. I'm sorry I moved in on your date. It was a total violation of bro code, and for that, I'm offering you one free swing at me. Just make sure to stay away from my nose, because I've broken that motherfucker way too many times and I'm scared one day it won't heal right.
Elle Kennedy
#87. It was one of many times I tried to save her. But by the time I did, it was too late.
Debbie Howells
#88. I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I'm in a confined space with too many people. It's not like I freak out or anything, it's just that I'm far more comfortable in my own company sometimes than being surrounded by one thousand strangers.
Ryan Kwanten
#89. Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many
Herb Caen
#90. Judging other people says more about you than about the person you're judging. Except of course when you're judging people with too many cats. And by that, I mean more than one cat. Those people are completely bonkers and should be locked up.
Jim Gaffigan
#91. God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives
DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.
Dale E. Turner
#92. The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#93. That's what nobody realizes. Two seconds are huge. It's the difference between something happening and something not happening. You could take one step too many and fall over the edge of a cliff. It's very dangerous.
Rachel Joyce
#94. There is only one way to receive intellectual respect, and that is to earn it. A degree doesn't mean anything, as there are too many maleducated morons running around with them to impress anyone.
Theodore Beale
#95. 'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'
Paul Weller
#96. You've got one hero too many already. Stand on your own feet, Brother. It's good for the soul.
Dorothy Dunnett
#97. When is a horror one horror too many? When have you had enough?
Nick Cole
#98. I was never able to have three of four beers. One's too many, and ten just ain't enough. Basically it's the way I've been since high school.
John Daly
#99. We only betray ourselves. No one is betrayed except by himself. One way to betray yourself is to try to be too many people at once.
"How many people should a person try to be in your opinion?"
One at the most. Most people don't even succeed in that.
MacDonald Harris
#100. I have a house where I go,
When there's too many people,
I have a house where I go
Where no one can be;
I have a house where I go,
Where nobody ever says "no"
Where no one says anything - so
There is no one but me.
A.A. Milne
