Jonathan Mayhew Quotes

All extremes are dangerous.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

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

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.

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.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

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

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

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

For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home.

I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

I can't do anything in moderation.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

We cannot play with fear nor with too much confidence.