Quote#Wisdom
People may have too much of a good thing
Quote byJohn Wolcot · 1738–1819
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Subjects for Painters, The Gentleman and his Wife; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 617..
English (original)
People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.
— John Wolcot
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