Billy Wilder Quotes

I can't do anything in moderation.

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

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

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

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.

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

There is moderation even in excess.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

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

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

Too much is the same as not enough.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

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.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.