Quotes About Moderation

There is a fine line between knowing the stats your self-publishing generates and living your life around them. Some authors check their Amazon rank several times a day. That can only lead to madness and walking the streets talking to yourself.

you might as well fall on your face as lean over too far backwards

I wonder where in the world it would be possible to have the ideal, a middle way, a balance between individuality and responsibility to the larger community. Easily named, of course, but I cannot begin to imagine where to achieve it.

Advice is a dangerous thing, the Watcher responded. It should be given only rarely and cautiously, and taken in small doses with skepticism.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

The less said the better.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

keep your breath to cool your porridge

Marianne's abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor's. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great.

How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!

There should be moderation in everything.

It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey

for with all his self-indulgence he had become a prudent man)

Todo impulso del sentimiento debe estar dirigido por la razón, y a mi juicio, el esfuerzo debe ser proporcional a lo que se pretende - Mary

Go and eat and drink a little more, and you will do very well.

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;—but when a beginning is made—when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt—it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

Exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now

todo impulso del sentimiento ha de ser dirigido por la razón y en mi opinión , el esfuerzo debe de ser proporcional a lo que se pretende.

Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.

No one can eat just one French fry." "I bet supermodels eat just one French fry.