Quotes About Moderation

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

Mrs. Watson feeds me 'round the clock and I haven't turned anything down. But at the rate I'm going, within the week I'll reach Maximum Tolerable Chins. Then I'll be obliged to give up this reckless dining.

Miss Holmes eyed a third slice of Madeira cake, but did not reach for it—possibly because she was approaching Maximum Tolerable Chins, the point at which she began regulating further helpings of cakes and puddings.

I miss hot cocoa with a burning passion," Charlotte sighed. "Every time I approach Maximum Tolerable Chins, I make solemn resolutions to be more moderate in my cake intake. And then a year passes and I'm at Maximum Tolerable Chins again.

The new technologies allow us to "dial down" human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.

Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.

Building character is like making bread—you have to mix it little by little, step by step, and moderate temperature is needed. You know yourself quite well, and you know how much temperature you need. You know exactly what you need. But if you get too excited, you will forget how much temperature is good for you, and you will lose your own way. This is very dangerous.

Elegance is not everything.

If I can't have too many truffles I'll do without.

Life is easy greediness adds complexity

The trick to surviving with low funds is to not have such high standards.

We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

To spend too much time in them [studying] is sloth, to use them too much for ornament is affectation, to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor* of a scholar….

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

I love dark chocolate, but I will have a piece just occasionally.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

If you're in love with someone maybe you can show it too much.

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Some relationships aren't meant to be Great Love; they're meant to be like a hot fudge sundae--enjoyable but not something you can acually live on.

Sometimes not much is just enough.

I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.