Quotes About Moderation

The problem that people have is that they eat too large portion sizes. Italians have been eating pasta for hundreds and hundreds of years, and we've never been an obese nation. We do the pasta, the pizza, all the cheeses, but it all has to do with how much you eat.

What is clear to me is that social media is a skill and you have to keep working at it. But it hasn't taken over my life. I think I use it, it doesn't use me.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.

It's important to be fit, but you shouldn't get too skinny. You need to have curves.

I love to interact with people, but there is a time and place for everything.

I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.

Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!

Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

Sun! Love it but know I should not be in it so much.

I often use alcohol as an artificial check on my skills.

Goldilocks effect"—that everything is just right. (For the record, these three possible universes are known respectively as closed, open and flat.) Now

At depth, microbes shrink in size and become extremely sluggish. The liveliest of them may divide no more than once a century18, some no more than perhaps once in five hundred years. As The Economist has put it: 'The key to long life, it seems, is not to do too much19.

Does anyone really need 50 percent more of plenty? The

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Rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price

They have gotten down to their own right size. Humility is understanding that they're worthwhile. It's the middle ground between the extremes of grandiosity and intense shame.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one needs. (Page 11)

We do not display greatness by going to one extreme, but in touching both at once, and filling all the intervening space.

Ne quid nimis