Jerry Ferrara Quotes

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

I hate exercising self-control.

There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

A prince must, above all things, accustom himself to moderate his desires. For as he has the power of gratifying them, if he once gives way to them, he will run to the greatest excess, and, by destroying his subjects, will at last complete his own ruin. In order to form himself to this moderation, nothing is more proper, than to accustom himself to patience. This is the most necessary of all virtues for those, who are to command. A man must be patient to become master of himself and others.

I can't resist temptation of any kind.

Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Protect me from what I want.

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

I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

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.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

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

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.