Quotes About Moderation

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

A small heart hath small desires.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

He needs little who desires but little.

I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.

It's important to keep a balanced diet, but I'm not a fan of deprivation. If I want a cheeseburger, I am not only going to eat that cheeseburger, but I'm going to enjoy that cheeseburger.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

A balanced diet is a cookie in both hands.

Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand

For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.

I see a lot of people use the Paleo diet as an excuse to eat bacon for every meal. That's a bit much.

It's important to have a healthy balanced diet but not to get too bogged down about it. It's important to enjoy your food, too.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.