Quotes About Moderation

[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.

To live long, live slowly.

We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.

More men die from overeating than undernourishment.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.