Quotes About Moderation

Buy only what you really need and cannot do without," President Harry Truman once said on TV.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

I have lived temperately . . . I double the doctors recommendation of a glass and a half of wine a day and even treble it with a friend.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

We never regret having eaten too little.

Enough is the same as a feast.

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.

A good thing is good, but more than enough of a good thing is too much.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference... it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.

We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.

To know what is enough is to be immune from disgrace, To know when to stop is to be preserved from all perils, Only thus can you endure long.

What I've learned from him is that boundaries are liberating. They can be readjusted all the time, but it's important to have them...If you burn out, no one's going to benefit. So it's in everyone's interest for you to do what you can and then make it clear that you can do no more.

You'll get a cheat meal, no question. It's not a cheat day. Every day, I indulge with something, because if I feel restricted, I'm gonna lash out.

I have no time for fad diets.

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.

I have a normal life; I don't do anything crazy.

I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.