Quotes About Moderation

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

The superior man limits his achievements.

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

Be careful with the man jewelry. A little goes a long way.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

Now, I'm mostly a beer man. When I drink hard liquor, it usually doesn't end the best, so I keep it chill with beer.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''