Francois Fenelon Quotes

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

I'm a tidy, neat person. But I'm not a maniac.

I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged 'just so.'

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

Be not righteous overmuch.

I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

I have realised I need to tone down and be easy at times. It is good to be competitive and have a fighting spirit, but one should not go to extremes.

I am a control freak. I want everything to be prim and proper.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig.

Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.