Quotes About Moderation

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

keep your food cold and a stove to cook it when you're ready to eat it. It has a bathtub and a shower to get you clean after your chores and a bed to lie down in at the end of the day. And that's all a person really needs. And I think the whole trouble with us is that we think we need so much more.

I either don't talk enough or I talk too much. There must be a right amount to talk. But I can never seem to find it." Another

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach

Medicines are not meat to live by.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

it was his custom to live for three days of the week on bread and water, and he had drunk this water with as much pleasure and as greedily (particularly when he was tired after praying or going on pilgrimage)

When God gives you an inch, don't take a mile.

I eat as much as the next girl, but I work my butt of in the gym every morning! The key is moderation. I splurge on the weekend. A big bowl of pasta and a delicious slice of cake for dessert are my favorites.

Plus I think it would be good for men to know they have limits.

You can lose a lot when you travel too much.

Drive a mediocre car, but live in the best house you can afford.

Real and solid happiness springs from moderation.

As we have been continuously counseled for more than 60 years, let us have some food set aside that would sustain us for a time in case of need. But let us not panic nor go to extremes. Let us be prudent in every respect. And, above all, my brothers and sisters, let us move forward with faith in the Living God and His Beloved Son.

If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.

A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck.

Wine upon beer is very good cheer; beer upon wine consider with fear.

Better weak beer than an empty cask.

I never drank anything stronger than gin before breakfast.