Quotes About Moderation

I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

We require routine and tradition. That's order. Order can become excessive, and that's not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown— and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.

Being of any reasonable sort appears to require limitation.

If you can bite, you generally don't have to.

El orden, cuando se lleva demasiado lejos, cae en el desequilibrio y puede también manifestarse de una forma destructiva y terrible.

He observed that the virtues always aim for balance and avoid the extremes of the vices.

Aim small. You don't want to shoulder too much to begin with, given your limited talents, tendency to deceive, burden of resentment, and ability to shirk responsibility.

Here's a straightforward initial idea: rules should not be multiplied beyond necessity.

Aristotle observes that eating either too much or too little is troubling to the constitution.

el remoto proverbio árabe: "Un mediano bienestar tranquilo es preferible a la opulencia llena de preocupaciones".

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!

Take care that your philosophy does not outpace your thought.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

Sometimes the district captain swung his cane slightly; it hinted at an exuberance that knows where to stop.

If we eat too much we'll get too fat to hunt, and then where will we be?

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

A hand has five fingers each one of unequal length so also in life its good to follow the moral of the goldilocks and the three bears story-my opinion.