Quotes About Moderation

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey ' which is like candy.

If now in some ways I drink too much, it's not that I lack a reverence for the world.

I don't want to do anything that might be perceived as overstepping our bounds. Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered.

Good God, woman. Hit the brakes on the freight train that is your mouth.

I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

I'm pretty healthy, most of the time.

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it.

I'm pretty careful about the things I say ahead of time. I'm thoughtful about not going too far. The only thing you can do occasionally is be too much.

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

Winning all the time is not necessarily good.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

I can be a binger when it comes to information, but most of the time, I'm pretty good, and I try to focus on my own life and personal communication.

Get what you get honestly. Use what you get frugally. That's the way to live comfortably And die honorably.

We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.

As novelist Harry Crews once wrote, I'm the kind of person who—if he can't have too much of something—doesn't want any of it. In

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You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink.