“I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.”

“No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.”

“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel they have not said enough.”

“I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry, but you can't use too many of them without damaging your literature.”

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”

“He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it.”

“I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.”