Quotes About Moderation

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

I can't be skinny all the time. I like to drink and I like to eat. I like burgers and bagels.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

we shouldn't always have what we want: it spoils the best of us, doesn't it?

mogla sam jedino zaklju?iti kako pretjerana taština, jednako kao i pijanstvo, otvrdnjuje srce, podjarmljuje sposobnosti te izopa?uje osje?aje; te kako psi nisu jedina bi?a koja se, i kada su sita do grla, i dalje nasla?uju onime što ne mogu proždrijeti te zavide i na najmanjem zalogaju svome izgladnjelom bratu.

It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. I'd rather choose the golden mean (which is not so golden), keep my thoughts to myself, and try for once to be just as disdainful to them as they are to me. Oh, if only I could!

Thurber was right when he said, "You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backwards.

Someone who'd spent $30,000 at a diet hospital told me the secret: Eat less, exercise more. Oh, and here's $5,000 worth of cutting edge advice: drink more water.

To ask how little, not how much, can I get along with. To say—is it necessary?—when I am tempted to add one more accumulation to my life, when I am pulled toward one more centrifugal activity.

You really have need of very little, but each of us must decide how much he wants.

Adulation is like rain. You can only get so wet.

You can't sprint every day, but it's probably a good idea to sprint regularly. It keeps the resistance at bay.

Whilst stupidity may indeed be a sin, it is also possible to be too clever. I sometimes fear, John, that you are too clever by half.

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

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

Simplicity is always a virtue.

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.