Quotes About Moderation

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

My philosophy is, 'Eat when hungry, stop when you're full.'

If I was hungry for two rotis, I ate only one.

I'm quite a broad girl, not at all delicate. I watch what I eat to stay in shape, but I'm against diets. I eat when I'm hungry, three meals a day.

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

Ancient is this [saying], O Atula, It is not just of today: They find fault in one sitting silently, They find fault in one speaking much, They find fault in one speaking moderately. No one in this world is not found at fault.

Just one olive, though

But even as he was thinking this, he knew he'd have to aim smaller. That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller.

En demasía lo bueno se hace malo, la píldora veneno y vicio la caricia; sabes de todo un poco y vas al cine, sabes de todo mucho y te suicidas. Mucha vida (cien años) es la muerte —se hace malo lo bueno en demasía—. La soledad, es ese gran espejo donde acabas por verte monstruoso; el silencio es la tuerca en el oído que se te va ajustando al agujero, demasiado silencio es igual que una bomba y demasiado amor es igual que un entierro.

Zuviel kann man wohl drinken, Doch trinkt man nie genug.

I've had my allotment of liquor — and probably twenty other people's

Do you think it would be bad for me to have another glass? Vodka has never done anyone any harm.

The price of abundance is restraint.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

I do enjoy fashion - a lot of runway clothes are pretty unwearable, but if moderated, the trends can be worn by just about anyone.

A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.

I sometimes worry that by encouraging so many more people to try their hand at baking through 'The Great British Bake Off,' I'm going to find myself in court one day charged with accelerating the national epidemic of obesity! To which I will plead not guilty. A slice of Victoria sandwich is never going to harm anyone.

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.