Flann O'Brien Quotes

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

There is moderation even in excess.

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

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.

You can't ever get too high or too low.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

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

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

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

Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.

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

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

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

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

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.