Quotes About Moderation

If you stop eating donuts you will live 3 years longer. It's just 3 more years that you want a donut.

Twopence a week, and jam every other day.

We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

With grooming, less is more. I like to smell good, so will use a fragrance like Boss Bottled. I don't overdo it, but I moisturise daily, too.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

I'm not really about spending every second on social media. I think there's a lot more useful things you can do with your time.

I always like to play. It is useful for me; I know how to regulate myself.

Everyone who uses their phone on a day to day basis just be careful with how much you're consuming because it can get unhealthy quickly.

90 percent of the time I follow my usual healthy eating routine, but if it's a date night or girls' night out I'll go for that slice of pretzel bread or dirty martini and not torture myself over it.

I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.