George Chapman Quotes

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

There is moderation even in excess.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

I can't do anything in moderation.

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

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

You can't ever get too high or too low.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

You can love something too much, you can spend too much time with something - that's when you've got to learn how to balance.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

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

The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you.

Practice moderation in all things except love.

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?