Quotes About Moderation

Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to make sense of the world, and the only real way to achieve happiness.'

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. In an environment of more is better, "enough" is like the horizon—always receding. You lose the ability to identify that point of sufficiency at which you can choose to stop. This is a psychological cul-de-sac, an invisible catch-22 of the consumer myth of more. If more is better, then what I have is not enough.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Brasley still drank too much and liked his women, but at least he paced himself now, walking the path to self-destruction instead of sprinting down it at full speed.

It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong.

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.

The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.

Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

All the best movies are the ones that are cut from a more middle ground.

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink two times a year. When it's my birthday, and when it's not my birthday.

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Don't take forever to make a decision, but don't make it too fast.

Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday

We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.