Quotes About Moderation

Todo amor, al final es moderado

Laws are made for one purpose only (...) to hold us in check when our desires grow immoderate. As long as our desires are moderate we have no need of laws.

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was The pathway to wisdom lies through excess

in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was The pathway to wisdom lies through excess (p. 113)

The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the 'kick'.

That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.

There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.

I think when people twitter 20 or 30 times per day, that's too much. They are boxing everyone else out, and people stop following them because they need a break.

I don't know how old my phone is, but it was only $10. It is a nice subconscious way of not having the Internet at your fingertips... e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.

I'm not going to go on Twitter and rant about something.

Twitter's probably my bad habit.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

I'm quite bingey; I'll be really healthy for two weeks, but then I'll be really crap for a week. I don't get ill, though.

I've never been the type to be on social media all the time.

I think everyone knows that I'm the type of person who can have a good time without drinking.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just rememeber two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.