Henry Peter Brougham Quotes

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

I do everything in moderation.

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

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

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

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.

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

This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.

So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

A prince must, above all things, accustom himself to moderate his desires. For as he has the power of gratifying them, if he once gives way to them, he will run to the greatest excess, and, by destroying his subjects, will at last complete his own ruin. In order to form himself to this moderation, nothing is more proper, than to accustom himself to patience. This is the most necessary of all virtues for those, who are to command. A man must be patient to become master of himself and others.

Moderation in all things..

Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.

I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs, so those are the values I live by.

I don't drink, I don't smoke.