Quotes About Moderation

So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside.

After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

I suppose one must be serious sometimes.

Things last either too long or not long enough.

Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

All excess, as well as renunciation, brings its own punishment.

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit. (To live well is to live concealed.)

You will go most safely by the middle way.

To live well is to live unnoticed. Bene qui latuit bene dixit.

If there's one thing I like, it's a quiet life. I'm not one of those fellows who get all restless and depressed if things aren't happening to them all the time. You can't make it too placid for me. Give me regular meals, a good show with decent music every now and then, and one or two pals to totter round with, and I ask no more.

She was a shrewd woman, and knew that the art of life is to know when to stop talking. What words have accomplished, too many words can undo. Good-bye.

I guess I don't believe you can have it all. I don't believe any of us can. In fact, I believe the very expression having it all is not only a myth but also a symptom of how sick we are in our contemporary culture. Nobody gets to have it all...You will have one thing or another depending on what choice you make. Or you will have both things in limited amounts, and that might turn out to be perfect, just exactly the life you want' (175).

Be comfortable within your purse, he often said. Extravagance will buy you discomfort.

Be comfortable within your purse," he often said. "Extravagance will buy you discomfort.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Excess is essential to the production of austerity.

Not that I am conservative, but did you know that one drink has the kick of three when you are alone?

even if we owned the world with a hog-tight fence around it, we could eat only three meals a day and sleep in one bed at a time—even a ditch digger can do that; and he will probably eat with more gusto and sleep more peacefully than Rockefeller.

When life is hard, pleasure can be more than a diversion. It can easily become a need. We easily move from a properly moderate enjoyment of sensuous experience to a consuming desire for it.

Pleasure is a good thing. But it is the dessert of life, not the meal.

It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fencesitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die.

that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that

I could almost set down as many extravagant things done in the excess of their joy as of their grief; but that would be to lessen the value of it.