Quotes About Moderation

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

A man needs enough...no less, no more.

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.