Richard Whately Quotes

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

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

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

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move

In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.