Quotes About Moderation

You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.

We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored.

I don't indulge in anything extravagant but I can't keep money in the bank.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

I'm on my own, luckily doing well, but like I said, we don't make a ridiculous amount of money and I have to be disciplined with what I do with it.

Less coin, less care.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

Wealth does not consist of having a lot of money or possessions, but to be content with little needs.

Try to live with whatever you can afford and avoid putting yourself in an awkward position of thinking how you can afford what you have failed to afford, please free your life on earth.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.