Quotes About Moderation

Where are the lines between satisfaction and excess, between restraint and indulgence, between pleasure and self-destruction? And why are they so difficult to find, particularly for women?

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

There needs to be a turn-off button for noses. This is too much.

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured.

Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,Cannot on forty.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Too many dragons are as dangerous as too few.

Best stop swallowing, you're like to choke on it.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

beyond important news, let's face it: Facebook and Twitter are filled with information no one really needs to know.

But people talk too much. They talk and talk so much that when the time comes there's nothing left in their words. They're like the dust you raise when you're winnowing grain.

Without someone to set the pendulum's swing, we wouldn't know where to find the middle. None of us in the business of making changes gets everything we want, the extremists allow us to look like moderates and to go after changes that will make a difference.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.

Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life.

After dinner, rest a while, after supper walk a mile.