Quotes About Moderation

It is fine to draw on what is on hand, and painful to have need and not have anything there; I warn you to be carful in this. When the bottle has just been opened, and when it's giving out, drink deep; be sparing when it's half-full; but it's useless to spare the fag end.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...

Seven Wise Men, he tells Gregory: here are their sayings. Moderation in all things, nothing to excess (those two are the same, wisdom can be repetitious). Know yourself. Know your opportunity. Look ahead. Don't try for the impossible. And Bias of Priene: pleistoi anthropoi kakoi, most men are bad.

The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is to slip backwards.

The more flesh, the more worms. The more possessions, the more worry.

She reported that when she'd told her doctor she was losing it, he said that she'd likely had too much to begin with.

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

Desire is that animal that remains fit only through undernourishment.

Be bold, be bold, but not too bold. Be good, but not too good. Be pretty, but not too pretty. Be honest, but not too honest. Maybe no one got lucky. Maybe it was too hard.

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

For too much rest becomes a pain.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

To alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

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No one could be expected to give up wine and books at the same time.

never got drunk like that again. I'm too much of a control freak to have other people falling about laughing while they describe my own actions to me.

You will eat slowly and mindfully and only what your body needs.

Where moderation is a fault indifference is a crime.