English Proverb or Saying Quotes

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

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

Be not righteous overmuch.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

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

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in the world as public indecency.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

Purity without balance is its own corruption.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Most virtue lies between two vices.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.