Quotes About Moderation

It is enough to know... Too much to see...

Self-control was overrated.

Honesty consists not in never stealing but in knowing where to stop in stealing, and how to make good use of what one does steal.

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

It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

It is far safer to know too little than too much.  People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

Law XIII. THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE

It is absurd and dangerous to imagine that God would have approved and encouraged the moderate use of a substance which intoxicates our organism, irrespective of the amount consumed.

scientists say that being fat can lead to dementia. I have decided, however, to throw caution to the winds and proceed with my all-cream-cake regime. It seems to me that the fatter I get, the fewer places I will go and so the less I will have to remember.

Beauty is not to ask for, but to overask for.

I want to tell you something but good taste Restrains me

Swearing can be fun, but doing it all the time causes a lot of problems