Quotes About Moderation

Between two evils, choose neither between two goods, choose both.

Hold it lightly.

He cannot hold his wine; he has no head for it. Why, on no more than three glasses, for I absolutely poured him out no more, he was on the point of singing Yankee Doodle. Yankee Doodle, in a King's ship, upon my sacred honour!

Jack Aubrey pushed back his chair, loosened his waistcoat, and said, 'I had no idea I was so hungry: I am afraid I must have eaten like an ogre.' Killick could be seen to smile: Jack's appetite always pleased him - his one deviation into amiability. 'Oh come,' said Maturin. 'Six mutton chops is not at all excessive in a man of your weight: an abstemious ogre would call it moderation.

bothsidesism. It's the insistence that whatever excesses of partisanship you may see on the right have an equivalent on the left, that the way forward to solving America's problems is for good centrists of both parties to come together and work things out. All of this is willfully naïve.

Here's the secret," he said. "I don't want more than I have—therefore I have everything. It's the economy of enough.

People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

We have 2 big problems here: 1] knowing when to start 2] knowing when to stop

Someone once said that the earth produces enough to satisfy needs, but not enough to satisfy greed

Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.

It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living.

The way I look at it, impatience may be the enemy of perfection, but the perfect is the enemy of the good.

This has been going on through the ages. They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world that escapes criticism. There never was and never will be, nor is there now, the wholly criticized or the wholly approved. Shakyamuni Buddha said that more than twenty-five hundred years ago, but it seems that some things never change.

Let anger's fire be slow to burn.

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.

The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.

Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.