W. C. Fields Quotes

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

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

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

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

Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

I can go eight days without a drink—but who wants to be a camel.

I do everything in moderation.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.