Avoiding Excess Quotes

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

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.

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

I'm really into moderation. Too much of anything will harm you in the end. Too much sugar. Too much pasta. I'm into drugs as a teaching tool, which is why I only take hallucinogenics. I mean, it's not like I've never done cocaine, but, on the whole, if I can't see dancing elephants then I'm not interested.

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

Knock yourself out... Or rather, don't.

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.

Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.

I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.