Quotes About Moderation

I am neither an introvert nor an extrovert. I am somewhere in the middle.

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.

If I have a fizzy drink and an ice cream, I get a sore tummy and a headache.

I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff can regress you really fast, and this is not a good place to regress.

I do think all things in moderation. I mean, the thing to me - it actually doesn't bother me very much if people want to read chick lit. But it makes me, you know, sort of disheartened when that's all that people want to read.

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.

I lived on oatmeal soup and apples. Nourishing enough.

I would be more slender if I didn't eat a bit of chocolate or a cake now and again, but I'm not one of those crazy women who just eat watercress soup - I need to chomp.

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now.

Keep dreaming is good sometimes- but don't dreaming too much cause its gonna make you stop dreaming suddenly

You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Gluttony is one of the lowest and most animal vices, and is obnoxious to all who pursue a moderate course.

b. Wrong habits of thought; giving expression to negatives. c. Wrong use of, and over indulgence in sex.

Sexual overindulgence may not only destroy reason and willpower, but it may also lead to either temporary or permanent mental dysfunction.

those who do too much somewhere do too little elsewhere

Let us call Mithridatization the result of an exposure to a small dose of a substance that, over time, makes one immune to additional, larger quantities of it. It is the sort of approach used in vaccination and allergy medicine. It is not quite antifragility, still at the more modest level of robustness, but we are on our way. And we already have a hint that perhaps being deprived of poison makes us fragile and that the road to robustification starts with a modicum of harm.

Light control works; close control leads to overreaction

Every additional glass of wine harms you more than the preceding one

system that overcompensates is necessarily in overshooting mode

Una teoria è come una medicina (o un governo): spesso inutile, a volte necessaria, sempre interessata e occasionalmente letale. Per questo dev'essere usata con attenzione, moderazione e sotto la supervisione di un adulto.

enjoy our blessings, and try to preserve, by becoming more conservative