Hannah Bronfman Quotes

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

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

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

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

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

I can't do anything in moderation.

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

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

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

I do everything in moderation.

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