Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.

Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

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.

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

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

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

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

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.