Jenny Eclair Quotes

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

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

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

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

I can't do anything in moderation.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

I'm a really extreme person, and balance is probably the hardest thing for me to maintain.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

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

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

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

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

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

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

I do everything in moderation.