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Quotes About Moderation

As our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach.  Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. 
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But don't chew, don't swallow. If you do, you risk abandoning the good work that inspired the compliment in the first place. If that happens, maybe it was the compliment and not the job well done that you were aiming for all along.
~ Unknown
Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You can't stare at it. It's too risky. You get a sense of it and then you look away.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Rather, he found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
~ Jess Walter
He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
~ Jess Walter
It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.
~ John Travolta
I work out sort of moderately.
~ Lara Stone
It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.
~ Liev Schreiber
I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.
~ Lisa Loeb
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
~ Philip Larkin
Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.
~ Ricky Gervais
I take care of myself. I work out every day. I eat healthy. But I like to have fun too.
~ Victoria Beckham
Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.
~ William Penn
All work and no play will make you sad and grey!
~ Habeeb Akande
A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you can work anywhere, anytime, then pretty soon you're working everywhere all the time.
~ Unknown
Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle?
~ Richie Norton
Do not waste your life over working.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Study hard, but party harder.
~ Nicole Polizzi
If it's done really well, you don't want big portions because you think, 'That was so fulfilling. I'm not stuffed. I feel great.'
~ Marcus Samuelsson
I eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one cheat meal a week but it can't be that I eat until I'm stuffed; I eat until I'm satisfied.
~ Tyson Gay
You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.
~ John Newcombe
A stylish person, for me, is one who draws your eye without necessarily being showy; they wear clothes that are beautifully cut, flatter the wearer, and show that they are not impervious to fashion, but not a slave to it either.
~ Jojo Moyes