Quotes About Moderation

Being too reasonable is a defect

Too much change is as destructive as too little.

Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

If alcohol fuels our Dionysian tendencies, caffeine nurtures the Apollonian.

S policy: "no snacks, no seconds, no sweets—except on days that begin with the letter S.

Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist

You're better off eating the real thing in moderation than bingeing on "lite" food products packed with sugars and salt.

Be the kind of person who takes supplements—then skip the supplements.

I realized that the answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated question of what we should eat wasn't so complicated after all, and in fact could be boiled down to just seven words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants

always living on less than you have and more lightly than you need to.

What matters is not the special occasion but the everyday practice—the default habits that govern your eating on a typical day. "All things in moderation," it is often said, but we should never forget the wise addendum, sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde: "Including moderation.

Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.

There's a happy medium to everything, even with powerhouse singers. You don't have to belt it out all the time. You don't have to overuse something.

When it comes to the chocolate, I allow it every single day, but I only get 200 calories worth. So I work it into my daily calories. It's a candy bar. But I usually only need it after dinner.

It's a part of my lifestyle to be healthy and eat healthy. I don't feel like I need to be like, 'You can't have this. You can't have that. You have to have this. You have to have that,' because then I feel like I will get inconsistent. I indulge when I want to, but try to be healthy every single day, too.

You don't have to post a picture with every single person at the party. Just get a few, maybe post one picture with eight people.

There is a fair amount of moderation on the site, not only for legal reasons, but for moral ones as well. We look out for bullying and just overall safety for the kids. It is a well-groomed site.

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Aim to eat healthy six days out of the week, and then enjoy what I call a 'super splurge' on the seventh day. It helps you enjoy yourself and not feel so deprived, so you're ready to recommit to healthy eating the following week.

When I started in movies, they said I'd be this big star, but I was only a moderate one. Not enough good pictures. It's important to be in a good piece of work no matter the size of one's own part.

I used to look at a pint of Haagen-Dazs and call it a serving size.

Size 8 is great! That is my new motto. I was a 14 and 6 and 12. I think it's healthy. I like to eat, drink and be merry!

I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.