Quotes About Moderation

Words are like sweets; too many of them make you sick.

You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Horses and poets should be fed, not overfed.

If you're smart, you keep happiness to yourself.

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

et puis on recommence encore le lendemain avec seulement la même règle que la veille et qui est d'éviter les grandes joies barbares de même que les gr-andes douleurs comme un crapaud contourne une pierre sur son chemin…

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridiculous exaggeration.

Ah Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Marcie: How can you pig-out on all that junk food every day, sir? Peppermint Patty: Life is more than carrot sticks, Marcie.

Your body is a temple, not a drive-thru.

I like to have a Martini, Two at the very most— After three I'm under the table, After four I'm under my host.

Maybe eating tacos isn't cheating on my diet. Maybe me dieting is cheating on tacos.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.

Happiness is a place between too little and too much.

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.