Charles Simmons Quotes

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.

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

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

I can't do anything in moderation.

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Take heed to your selves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness.

We've led pretty wholesome lives. We haven't lived life to excess like so many groups have done.

restraint equals indulgence

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

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

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

There is moderation even in excess.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

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

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.