Quotes About Moderation

Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature.

Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated.

Maybe I should have wanted less. Maybe I should have ignored the bowl in me burning to be filled. Maybe I should have wanted less.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest riches is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking.

But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. That way, you'll never be disappointed.

But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less.

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. That way, you'll never be dissappointed.

Conservatism, in the world of American politics, no longer means "to struggle for the continuation of institutions and policies which best reflect values of moderation and fiscal prudence".  Conservatism now means a type of extremism which is anathema to earlier incarnations of the GOP.

Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.

Our body is like a machine. If we constantly run the machinery at high speed, it will wear out faster. Since animals with slower metabolic rates live longer, eating more calories, which drives up our metabolic rate, will cause us only to age faster. Contrary to what you may have heard and read in the past, our goal should be the opposite: to eat less, only as much as we need to maintain a slim and muscular weight, and no more, so as to keep our metabolic rate relatively slow.

Since both too little and too much iodine can have a negative effect on thyroid function, taking 150 micrograms a day is sufficient and protective.

So though we should maintain adequate intake of DHA, B12, zinc, iodine, and Vitamin D, we should also be aware that taking too much can also be harmful.

our goal should be the opposite: to eat less, only as much as we need to maintain a slim and muscular weight, and no more, so as to keep our metabolic rate relatively slow.

Eloquence in public assemblies is not the surest road to fame and preferment, at least unless it be used with great caution, very rarely, and with great reserve.

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

the priests said that food was not there to be enjoyed but simply to keep us alive. Simplicity of diet was important.

Learn to be flexible. Thomas Jefferson once said, "In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current.

Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it's done mainly for show, it's still a start.

Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others.