Quotes About Moderation

There's too much lime in the world and not enough gin. —Frank O'Hara, from "Poem," The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara . (University of California Press March 31, 1995)

Betreffs des Mauls, da solltet Ihr das Eure vielleicht halten.

Ernest. Oh, I can't eat any more. Hans. Just this shining muscatelle! Ernest. My elasticity has its limit.

Ita fit ut ratio praesit, appetitus obtemperet.

Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

Open still remains a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesses little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!

Don't eat more than you want," Grandma said. Kendra realized she had been toying with her pancakes, procrastinating the next bite. "I'm kind of tense," Kendra confessed, eating another forkful, hoping her face looked pleasant as she chewed. "I'll have hers," Seth offered, having almost finished his stack. "When

Well, I myself find that respect is like manure. Use it where needed, and growth will flourish. Spread it on too thick, and things just start to smell.

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

extremists at both ends of the political continuum have more in common with each other than they do with the vast majority of people from their own constituencies.

The opposite of scarcity is not abundance; the opposite of scarcity is simply enough.

I only drink on two occasions—when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

The world can absorb only doses of truth, he said; too much would kill it. One sought education in order to adjust the dose.

for my greatest skill has been to want but little.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, anymore than I would have every acre of earth cultivated.

When a man is warmed by the several modes which I have described, what does he want next? Surely not more warmth of the same kind, as more and richer food, larger and more splendid houses, finer and more abundant clothing, more numerous, incessant, and hotter fires, and the like. When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life

my greatest skill has been to want but little

It is hard to provide and cook so simple and clean a diet as will not offend the imagination; but this, I think, is to be fed when we feed the body; they should both sit down at the same table. Yet perhaps this may be done. The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment on your dish, and it will poison you.

Quem percebe o verdadeiro sabor do alimento nunca será um glutão; quem não o percebe não pode deixar de sê-lo

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I