Quotes About Moderation

I just feel like, if I drink, I want to drink a case of beer and not two beers. Two beers doesn't do anything for me.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.

I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.

I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE!

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered.

How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.

Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

I'm not really trying to break the bank like some other people. I just want what's fair.

I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.

I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.

When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. I always want more and that's just my life.

People confuse the fact that I discuss drinking openly with the idea that I'm a heavy drinker. I don't want girls at my show wasted, screaming and yelling out and vomiting.

I feel like you can eat everything that you want in moderation.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

Over the years, I've found that anger is necessary, but it must reach an equilibrium: You need just enough but never too much. If you don't let it in, you become hollow; but if you let it take over, you become its slave.

Enough," said he, "is always a little more than a man has.