Ann-Margret Quotes

I've calmed down already. I don't hook up anymore.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

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

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

I like simplicity almost to the point of being monastic.

We've led pretty wholesome lives. We haven't lived life to excess like so many groups have done.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

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

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

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

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

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

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

I'm not an ascetic.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

There is an almost anti-epicurean tradition at the very base of America. For much of the middle part of American history, people who wanted to overcome that went to France.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.