Quotes About Moderation

One drink is just right two is too many three are too few.

The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

He glanced at the ruins on the breakfast table and shot Umpily a contemptuous glance. "Moderation is not your strong suit, my lord." "Moderation insults perfection, your Omnipotence." It was an old saying of Ishipole's, but Umpily thought he had used it rather well. The

You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you've done nothing good for yourself. That's the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.

Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.

He felt the one experience sharpened the other. He said one feels one has earned a beer after cycling for a couple of hours and then the continued cycling afterwards gives one the satisfying feeling that one is working it off and will soon need another. In this way one can achieve a comfortable rhythm of exercise and relaxation getting neither fitter nor fatter.

It is important and vital to not use more than 5% of any given time on rewarding yourself, rewards are good for your psyche but too much leads you in the regret and remorse trap

Lent survives as a much moderated version of this self-imposed discomfort.

dictum of Paracelsus, 'The poison is the dose',

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds—even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health.

A man should drink in moderation be sensible or silent.                         Hávamál

One of the consequences of covetousness is that it destroys the capacity to discern sufficiency. It distorts our thinking to the point where: Enough is never enough.

It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is more apt to be diminished than promoted, by those occasions which require an unusual exercise of it.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

Clay had been able, decade after decade, to quell rancor and bring opposing parties together in compromise. Time and again, he resisted "extremes of opinion" in both North and South. "Whatever he did, he did for the whole country.