Quotes About Moderation

Moderate exercise is indispensable; exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well.

A fast is better than a bad meal.

Keep temperate diet, use moderate exercise, observe seasonable and set hours for rest: let the end of thy first sleep raise thee from thy repose: Then hath thy body the best temper; then hath thy soul the least encumbrance; then no noise shall disturb thine ear, no object shall divert thine eye.

One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self, so as to have somewhat left to give, instead of being always prompt to grab?

Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy: the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other.

Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy.

He had sought to equip himself with the tools of artistry. On the other hand, he had not sacrificed strength. His conscious aim had been to increase his strength by avoiding excess of strength. Nor

A surfeit of honey cloys the tongue; a surfeit of wine addles the brain; so a surfeit of ease guts a man of strength.

In keeping with his own sober manner and simple style of living, Genghis Khan warned them against the pursuit of a "colorful" life with material frivolities and wasteful pleasures. "It will be easy," he explained, "to forget your vision and purpose once you have fine clothes, fast horses, and beautiful women." In that case, "you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.

My conscience commands me to love an enemy and not harm him, to avoid adding new causes for separation; it tells me that I ought to be an example of moderation and mildness for my enemy; perhaps through my actions, I might encourage him to do the same, and then at last may God send us the dear desired peace."8 For

There's a saying, "The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

This is not to say you should eat chocolate all the time. You'll get obese. It's much better to just simply fall in love.

What is enough? It's not a number.

Everything about his character and manners was forcible and violent; there never was any moderation; many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine; but when he did eat, it was voraciously; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.

I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.

I've got uncles who wore garish stuff, you know, electric blue polyester suits, and they carried it off. But my dad never went down that path, he has never been into loud stuff. His style was fashionable, but never sharp.

Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.