Quotes About Moderation

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.

A Bear Scout... Is as honest as the day is long. Admire when he or she is wrong. Respects the creatures of creation. Views TV in moderation. Is never cruel, rude, or mean. Plays the game fair and clean. Does his best at school. Following the golden rule, always respects the rights of others, including even sisters' and brothers'.

Drop out of the "clean-plate club." "Lord, help me to eat more heartily at Your table and more sparingly at mine!" —Derl Keefer

An exercise in power should never be merely and indulgence.

La gratitud nos hace felices porque son raras las ocasiones en que se nos hace visible; toda delicadeza nos produce un efecto saludable, y para mí, naturaleza fría y mesurada, aquella superabundancia de sentimiento significaba algo nuevo, agradable y felicísimo.

Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred per cent.

big, strapping macho guys were like liquid diets--they were great for emergencies, but she wouldn't want to be on one all the time.

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

Sara Stark, An Untold Want

There's such a thing as moderation even in telling the truth.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.