Samuel Butler Quotes

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Be not righteous overmuch.

Moderation in all things..

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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.

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

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.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

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.

Everything in moderation.

I can't do anything in moderation.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.