Quotes About Moderation

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.

I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

I enjoy tasting [beer]. But I'm not a drinker, period. With my schedule, I don't really have time.

All movements go too far.

I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

It's not good to be lit all the time and have no clear-headed thoughts.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination.

We need to be sincere in our practice, but at the same time we can't take ourselves too seriously.

I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?

Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

I'm always, all the time, eating chocolate. I eat pretty healthy, but then I go all out when it has to do with chocolate.

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.