Quotes About Moderation

Smoking and drinking too much is not the way to fitness. Love your body and treat it good.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Gentle with the drugs, heavy with the love

I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Before you go to bed tonight ask yourself one thing, "How much junk food did I eat and drink today?"...then say your prayers. -Johnny The Walker

She has drunk a lot. There have been at least three glasses since she got here, and there were many more back at the bar. But she has reached that rare, pleasant state of alcoholic equilibrium. She is not drunk enough to feel sick or woozy. She is just merry enough to be suspended, floating in this pleasurable moment.

be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

We have learned to eat like snakes. When there is something to eat - we eat enough to last for a week. When there is nothing - we don't eat. Now, when we get our food supply, we eat it all, right there, we leave nothing for tomorrow. Like the birds. And then we read our books. We go after spiritual food...

The doctrine of the mean (the epithet 'golden' is un-Aristotelian) regularly occurs in later writers as a piece of moral advice -- a recipe or rule reminding us to 'observe the mean', to be moderate in all things and to avoid excess and deciciency. (If the doctrine urges us not to drink too much wine, it equally urges us not to drink too little -- but that is something which the moralizers usually find it prudent to ignore.)

Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme.

Some constraint is good for us; absolute freedom is not.

Literally and figuratively. Balance is important to you

For many of the same reasons, machines tend to be a force for moderation. They must engage in transactional politics to survive, and that often requires them to put ideology aside, or at least to dial it back, in the interests of holding power.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

Conversation is but carving!Give no more to every guestThan he's able to digest.Give him always of the prime,And but little at a time.Carve to all but just enough,Let them neither starve nor stuff,And that you may have your due,Let your neighbor carve for you.

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.

Do not dig your grave with your own knife and fork.