Quotes About Moderation

The less said the better.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.

Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.

Eat when you're hungry. Drink when you're thirsty. Sleep when you're tired.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you.

How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.

He who talks too much commits a sin.

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

One cannot both feast and become rich.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup;... at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

Age 40 & the 40s. — People often say to a boy when he eats between meals: "It will spoil your dinner." But, piecing between meals never spoils your meals until after you pass forty.

No? i rakija i plitka pamet nemaju mjere.

Kažu da nije znao šta je žensko tijelo ni plotsko uživanje uopšte. Nikada nije okusio nikakva opojnog pi?a, ni fildžan kafe, ni dim duvana. Ali nije osu?ivao one koji se služe svim tim božjim darovima za ovoga kratkoga života.