Quotes About Moderation

I think that this media online stuff makes us all sick. We think we have to be online all the time.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.

I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

Never try to put all the chemicals in the entire world in your body at the same time.

Avoid running at all times.

You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for thinking things, too, not just food.

Tant que tu ne veux pas ce dont tu n'as pas besoin, tout ira bien. Tant que tu ne veux pas ce que tu ne peux pas obtenir.

used to tell people, 'Don't eat so much or you'll die, don't smoke so much or you'll die, don't work so much or you'll die, don't drink so much or you'll die.' Nobody listens. You know why? Because I don't say, 'You will die tomorrow.

ninguna locura, no se disforzaba. Se tomaba sus copas y nada más.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

This is something of a paradox in that the transgression—crime perhaps—of America has been to reject Classicism for Romanticism. The national distaste for moderation—to which Henry Adams referred—inevitably leads to such a choice.

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

You can be rich by having more than you need, or by needing less than you have. —JIM MOTT

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

The man who shuns and fears everything and stands up to nothing becomes a coward; the man who is afraid of nothing at all, but marches up to every danger becomes foolhardy. Similarly the man who indulges in pleasure and refrains from none becomes licentious (akolastos); but if a man behaves like a boor (agroikos) and turns his back on every pleasure, he is a case of insensibility. Thus temperance and courage are destroyed by excess and deficiency and preserved by the mean.

Moderation in all things

By the mean of the thing I denote a point equally distant from either extreme, which is one and the same for everybody; by the mean relative to us, that amount which is neither too much nor too little, and this is not one and the same for everybody.

Hence while in respect of its substance and the definition that states what it really is in essence virtue is the observance of the mean, in point of excellence and rightness it is an extreme.

There is no such thing as observing a mean in excess or deficiency, nor as exceeding or falling short in observance of a mean.

First then this must be noted, that it is the nature of such things to be spoiled by defect and excess; as we see in the case of health and strength (since for the illustration of things which cannot be seen we must use those that can), for excessive training impairs the strength as well as deficient: meat and drink, in like manner, in too great or too small quantities, impair the health: while in due proportion they cause, increase, and preserve it.

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.