Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

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.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Lust is an appetite that needs to be regulated.

I do everything in moderation.

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

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

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

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

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

It's a wise thing to hold back.

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