Quotes About Moderation

Festina lente

Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374

You can only play a certain amount of Yatzee games in a row before you become a lunatic.

Only a teaspoon of self-pity, girl. Every day give yourself a teaspoonful, but only a teaspoonful. Fill it up full, but only once! Don't let yourself have more. You can't live off it. But just a bit of it is like a tonic.

Here's the thing, everybody loves babies . . . but only in very, VERY small doses.

Jon's brought a couple of bottles of Phillips peppermint schnapps to Van Cleve Park. The label says Enjoy in Moderation. Not much chance of that in this crowd.

The best diet is the one you don't know you're on.

I always say there's nothing wrong with a bit of vice as long as it's not taken to the extreme. Give me someone with a touch of vice over someone with an excess of sanctimonious hypocrisy any day.

She believed in the principle of enoughness. from About Alice

It is harder in many ways to live in the middle than at the edges. Much harder to interpret as you see fit, because then you have no assurance you are doing right in the eyes of God, no confidence you will be rewarded in the afterlife

Overconcentration on any one point is distortion.

Be flirty but not too flirty. Be confident but not aggressive. Be funny but in a low-key, quiet way. Eat cheeseburgers, but don't get fat. Be chill, but don't lose control.

Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Take it easy man, but take it.

Remember—we seek a balance in all things.

Middle paths in tragedy are in notably short supply.

The foundations of some formerly strong lands became so riddled with termites of diminished purpose, so decayed with the decadence of smug moderation, and so emaciated with the vacillating aims of appears, that even when they saw the enemy coming and did resist, they were easily toppled when the Imperial Order finally pushed.

When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.

He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.

He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower.

Nothing wrong with whips and needles, in moderation.

What we're going to do is keep the peace. That's our job. We're not going to be heroes, we're just going to be ... normal.

THE FIVE CONTEMPLATIONS This food is the gift of the whole universe, the Earth, the sky, and much hard work. May we eat in such a way as to be worthy to receive it. May we transform our unskillful states of mind and learn to eat in moderation. May we take only food that nourishes us and prevents illness. We accept this food in order to realize the path of understanding and love.