Quotes About Moderation

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

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

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the game, except maybe your mother or your wife.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

Life should be dealt with in small bites, large gulps will choke you.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.