Quotes About Moderation

The heart of the show, Black and White is 'dunt eat too much Chinese food.

Good is good and enough is enough, but good enough is not…

As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.

Allison was a born conformer, a person who believed in doing the "right thing," being responsible, not making too many waves.

There are two things that should be avoided; the deadly upas tree and soda water. The latter will make you puffy and poddy.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

The excess of virtue is a vice.

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.

A cup of wine is medicine, a gallon of wine is ruin.

Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best.

Good wine makes good blood.

He who drinks a fifth on the fourth may not be able to go forth on the fifth.

The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.

If you eat the whole cake without cutting it into slices, then technically you've only had one piece.

Criminal Minds, The Dance of Love: "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

By chase our long-lived fathers earn'd their food, Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood; But we, their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend: God never made his work for man to mend.

Fortitude is the mean between fear and rashness.

you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

When one is content, little will suffice. But without contentment, nothing suffices.

One aspect of traditional medicine related to a spiritual cosmology—whether this tradition was Greek, Chinese, or Arab—is the belief that too much food harms the spiritual heart and, in fact, could kill it. It was commonly believed that people who eat in abundance become hardhearted.

The Imam posits that the treatment of wantonness is to intentionally experience hunger and to reflect seriously on death and the Hereafter.

Food is not to enjoy. That's not the reason why you're eating it. That's why the Glutton eats. But someone who's serious about maintaining their health - they eat for health. We're literally digging our graves with our teeth.