Robert Trout Quotes

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

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

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

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

Apology is often the first step in correcting a wrong. Having moved for a position of saying 'I don't need forgiveness,' Mr. Trump is now taking a second look at past behaviors, things that he's said and done that he regrets. While he is not asking for forgiveness for being human, he is admitting that he's made mistakes and humbly making apologies.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

I don't make the right choices. I simply don't.

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.

If you only use rich and luxurious ingredients, you end up with excess.

You can love something too much, you can spend too much time with something - that's when you've got to learn how to balance.

Excess is the common substitute for energy.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

Too much of something is never good.

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.