Frank Vincent Quotes

You gotta take care of yourself; you can't do anything in excess.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

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

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

I can't do anything in moderation.

I don't want to be viewed as a womaniser or whatever. I don't like going crazy crazy, I like having fun but it's nice to wake up in your own bed, isn't it?

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

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

I do everything in moderation.

It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

You can't get too excited about your own medicine.