Jerry Jeff Walker Quotes

You gotta take care of yourself; you can't do anything in excess.

It is better to do too much than to do too little.

My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

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

Moderation in all things..

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

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

I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

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

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

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

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

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.

Everything in moderation.

I can't do anything in moderation.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!