Jeff Ross Quotes

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

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

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

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.

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

Do not prove things too much.

I'm a lot of things, but I'm not reckless.

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

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

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

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

I've learned to be more reserved, watch what I'm saying; I got in a little bit of trouble. People tell me 'Never lose that, never lose that,' but then I get in trouble so I have to lose it. I'm trying to keep a little bit; I'm never going to lose who I am, I just gotta tone it down a little bit.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.