Quotes About Moderation

at my age, one must ration one's excitement

No proper life could be made from the pursuit of blinding pleasure followed by limp exhaustion.

Festina lente. You know what that means? Hurry slowly. Bene. He smiled. -A Good & Happy Child

A disorderly spirituality that makes the practitioner dreamy, eccentric, or uncontrolled is a very bad sign indeed. In

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

I think happiness is a bit like a cake. If you have cake every single day of your life you'll get sick of it. If you're happy everyday, you'll get sick of being happy… That's a good saying actually. Happiness is like a cake. Have too much and you'll get sick of it.

You can have too much of a good thing. It's like when I bought the box set of The Sopranos. I loved the first few, and even though it was still good, after that I just couldn't take any more.

She would be happy -- but not excessively so....

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.