Quotes About Moderation

he that drinks all night, and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the sounder all the next day.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and evenly, and this, he knew, was for him a minor sort of tragedy.

I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

the result will require that the U.S.A. and the United Kingdom should exert all their influence to get Russia to act moderately and sensibly and not to flout world opinion.

more than is wise or philosophic; but I contain myself, when nothing is to be gained by giving way.

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Take it easy, but take it.

The hundred flavors of rare dainties     Are no more once you've eaten your fill.     You may accumulate private savings     But not in your stomach private hoardings!

He neglected not his own body, and praised not those that neglected theirs.  In like manner, he blamed the custom of some who eat too much, and afterwards use violent exercises; but he approved of eating till nature be satisfied, and of a moderate exercise after it, believing that method to be an advantage to health, and proper to unbend and divert the mind. 

but I have always thought that to need nothing is divine, and to need as little as possible is the nearest approach to the divine; and that what is divine is best, and what is nearest to the divine is the next best.

What good have you to offer, or what do you know of pleasure, you who refuse to do anything with a view of either? You don't even wait for the desire for what is pleasant: you stuff yourself with everything before you want it, eating before you are hungry and drinking before you are thirsty.

I applied my reason at every moment. Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic.

But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

He did much to keep different groups of Franciscans together, one of the many reasons that have led a majority of Franciscan historians to regard Bonaventure's generalate as a blessing in which his moderation saved the order from chaos.47 For those who are inclined to doubt this view, it is important to recall that shortly after his death, the order fell into nearly four decades of fractious dispute, which turned deadly in 1318, when four Spirituals were burned at the stake in Marseilles.48

If it feels like work, you're working too hard.

The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly.

One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

All work and no pray,makes jack a weak boy .But all pray and no work,makes jack a poor boy

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.