Quotes About Moderation

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts, learned his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit, has got moderation and real skill.

To make pleasure pleasant, shorten.

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things, who is a "middle-of-the-roader" in everything, and I will show you someone who is insecure.

A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.

No man in his senses will dance.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

I am only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

I have never been drunk, but I've often been overserved.

You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.