Quotes About Moderation

A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation, and close adult supervision.

So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small "affects" across time as evenly as possible.

sometimes life requires compromises:

But you need to remain understated and maintain an Olympian calm in front of others.

Again, limited, low-dose poisoning triggers healthy benefits.

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

As Thomas Jefferson wrote the following year, "the moderation and virtue of a single character has probably prevented this revolution from being closed as most others have been by a subversion of that liberty it was intended to establish.

You should learn to relish the hunger more than the feast, lest you become a glutton.

Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.

You will take no more than you need, and waste nothing. People will attempt to buy your friendship. They will lavish things upon you. Accept nothing but the barest of human necessities.

It's hard to drink when you dance. And it's hard to dance when you drink.

it's the same for most of us but one of the best things I learned was to stay out of the bars and also to try to stay off the street. I fail sometimes to stay off the streets but not too often. the finest place on earth to drink is in your own place and alone. you probably know all this. all right.

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The main thing, Ruby said, was not to get ahead of yourself. Go at a rhythm that could be sustained on and on. Do just as much as you could do and still be able to get up and do again tomorrow. No more, and no less.

That Enough Is As Good As a Feast' ...The inventor of [this saying] did not believe it himself....Goodly legs and shoulders of mutton, exhilarating cordials, books, pictures, the opportunities of seeing foreign countries, independence, heart's ease, a man's own time to himself, are not muck — however we may be pleased to scandalise with that appellation the faithful metal that provides them for us.

After all, if there is one person a fanatic is predisposed to hate, it's a moderate who is almost but not completely aligned with their program.

If sane, pragmatic, moderate people ignore politics because they are disgusted with the outcomes, then it merely leaves a vacuum to be filled by more extreme and dishonest elements. Unlike baseball, democracy is not a spectator sport. Things won't correct themselves if you ignore them out of disgust. They will get worse. Look around.

I know liquor's a good servant but a bad master.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

I don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life.

Of course, I love football, but I'm not one of those die-hard fans that never miss a game or with rooms devoted to team colors. At the end of the day, it's just a game.

The number one mistake people make in attraction is either doing too much or too little.

I like to do a little bit of boldness but mixed in with a classic look. You don't have to do something crazy to stand out.

I'm quite moderate.