Stephen Hough Quotes

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

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

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

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

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

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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 don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful.

Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.

I never fry a doughnut! If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon. It's about everything in moderation.

Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year - birthday, anniversary, holidays - that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal - it's not a Thanksgiving day, and it's not a Thanksgiving week.

In an age where overindulgence seems to be the norm, I can't help but look back and feel thankful that my parents chose to hold out on giving me everything that I wanted growing up.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

There has to be some self-denial.

Taste everything, eat nothing.