Quotes About Moderation

Recuerda que en tiempos arduos hay que conservar la ecuanimidad, lo mismo que en buenos un ánimo que domina prudentemente la alegría excesiva.» Horacio, Carmina, II, 3]

Give way neither to love nor to hate, is one-half of worldly wisdom: say nothing and believe nothing, the other half.

Zor zamanlarda itidalini korumay?, güzel anlarda da a??r? sevincini dizginlemeyi hat?rla. -Horatius, Carmina

Wesley declared, "Some have exalted religious fasting beyond all Scripture and reason; and others have utterly disregarded it.7 In studiously avoiding the one, let us watch against the other. The much more prevalent error of our day is an easy indulgence which permits us to pamper the flesh when we should buffet it; to feast and enjoy ourselves when we ought to fast and to pray.

Others have partially fasted by omitting a certain meal each day, thus strictly limiting the quantity of food consumed.

Vigilance is needed to ensure that the value of omitting the one meal is not offset by increasing the intake at others!

A year ago, he would have eaten to the point of nausea. "But now they're, I don't know, they're too sweet.

I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

Never Consume more than you produce.

Too much beauty undermines the marriage vows, too much knowledge leads to isolation, and too much wealth produces madness.

Dobro mo?e i bywa w niewielkich dawkach dobre, ale jako do?ywocie jest trucizn?.

Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable

there is less danger in fearing too much than too little"—

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

In [Eisenhower's] view, 'Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.' In his farewell address as President, he asserted, 'We - you and I, and our government - must avoid plundering for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all ages to come.

I've always believed it right for young people to drink. Not to be alcoholic of course, that is a passive state of being, not a positive action. But it is good to drink to excess.

Duke est desipere in loco [it is pleasant to act foolishly from time to time—a line from Horace].

The world has a way of keeping things in balance.

Too much knowledge isn't good for a person. I know that now.

But mostly it's about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

The first rule of self control is never to put yourself in a position where you have to practice self control

Balance: a dance with how and when.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.