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Quotes About Moderation

BREVITY. The quality that makes cigarettes, speeches, love affairs and ocean voyages bearable.
~ H. L. Mencken
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels — except cupcakes.
~ Internet meme, c. 2016
I'm into fitness — fitness whole cupcake in my mouth.
~ Internet meme, c. 2015
In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
~ Horace Mann (1796–1859)
Man does not live by coffee alone. Have a danish.
~ Author Unknown
The liberal spirit... has about it a refreshing common sense... It is even-tempered, and of even tempo...
~ Dorothy Thompson, 1937
We have been led to think that to drink is manly, and to get in a condition where common sense has fled and the tongue is tangled is funny...
~ Elbert Hubbard, 1913
God help me... that I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who recalls when folks used to git along without somethin' if it cost too much?
~ Kin Hubbard
I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert.
~ Jason Love
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
~ Proverb
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
~ English proverb
Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket.
~ Author Unknown
People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.
~ Author Unknown
Food is fuel, not therapy.
~ Author Unknown
Eat less sugar — you're sweet enough already.
~ Author Unknown
Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer.
~ Author Unknown
We never repent of having eaten too little.
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1825
It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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.
~ E. W. Howe
Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek.
~ Bryan Miller
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.
~ Chinese proverb
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
~ English proverb
'T is a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson