Quotes About Moderation

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

It's important to know when to take your time and not overspend and overdo things, of course. That's why you get things that can be dressed in a thousand different ways.

Don't live online, live in real time. I'm just astonished how many people live online.

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

Do not exaggerate to stay lonely! Do not exaggerate to stay in the crowds! Come and go, from one to another! Spend not long time in either of them!

I don't want to be my extravert self all the time.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

I don't spend a lot of time online.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.

Everything in moderation except whiskey, and sometimes too much whiskey is just enough.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

In the Greater Community, there are races at all levels of evolution and technological skill. There are races that are dedicated to good. And there are races that are dedicated to destruction. However, because they have to contend with each other, they moderate each other. To the extent that they do have contact, they learn from each other and influence each other, physically and mentally.

American political thought was not committed to conservatism, nor radicalism, nor moderation. It was above all fluid. As such it contained trends rather than hard lines, and affirmative leadership could guide it into constructive channels.

If we lived more simply most of the time, our feasts would be distinctive events. As it is, since most Americans have all kinds of special things to eat every day, for many the only way to make Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts uncommon is by eating more. It would be good if we could restore the concept of feasting not as something to regret (don't we all have to lose a few pounds after the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's season?), but as a delight.

Las esperanzas son como los adornos del pelo. De joven se pueden llevar demasiados. Pero cuando envejeces, tan sólo uno ya te hace parecer tonta.