Quotes About Moderation

A shirt look good when you iron it but if you iron too much, it gonna get burned.

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

If I'm in Italy, I'll have an espresso, but I try not to get my energy from things like that.

You can't party all the time - especially in January!

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

The honorablest part of talk, is to give the occasion; and again to moderate, and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

The English race, consequently, has long and successfully studied the art of curbing executive power to the constant neglect of the art of perfecting executive methods. It has exercised itself much more in controlling than in energizing government. It has been more concerned to render government just and moderate than to make it facile, well-ordered and effective.

With justice and moderation the people will produce more, tax revenues will increase, and the state will grow rich and powerful. Justice is the foundation of a powerful state.

Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.

Use law and physic only for necessity. They that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses. They are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

Para conservar la salud y cobrarla si se pierde, conviene alargar en todo y en todas maneras el uso del beber vino, por ser, con moderación, el mejor vehículo del alimento y la más eficaz medicina

Mejor me sabe en un platón la sopa y el vino con la mosca y la zurrapa que al rico que se engulle todo el mapa muchos años de vino en ancha copa

Para a nossa cobiça o muito é pouco , para a nossa necessidade o pouco é muito

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

The secret of being boring is to tell everything.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Alcohol is liquid sugar. It's more depleting than restorative. To feel your best, you shouldn't be having alcohol every day, even red wine.

Less is only more where more is no good.

The buying of a whole bottle does not require that you drink the whole bottle. Mother's Rule of eating everything on your plate does not apply to alcohol.