Quotes About Moderation

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.

Too much work is bad, too much fun is bad. Find that balance in your life, live smart. Live good.

Whatever you do, I wanted to say, do not be too happy. It will bring fire down on your head.

I had a little pride, as I have said, and that was good. More would have been fatal.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

Men who never get carried away should be.

not being able to govern events, I govern myself." ~ Michel de Montaigne

We need to work less to achieve more. We need to stop fighting food and start embracing it. We need to stop punishing our bodies and start providing for them. We need to slow down and enjoy and then we'll get the results we've been looking for—and sooner than we expect.

she judged frivolous reading to be as unhealthy as sweets and pastries...

For kunnskap er som mat, og måtehold må til så man kun inntar slikt et mål som sinnet lett kan romme, overflod er byrdefullt, og vender visdom snart til dårskap, slik som næring blir til vind.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

You actually don't need to go out to the porn sites.

but you ask anybody who's been to jail, and they'll tell you—a little is way, way better than a lot. Way better.

Anyway, I might have just gone on about porn too long.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic.

Things are neither so good nor so bad as they seem to you now

How much is whiskey a gallon?" "I don't know," said Hughie. "I never get more than a half pint at a time myself—at one time that is. I figure you get a quart and right away you got friends. But you get a half pint and you can drink it in the lot before— well before you got a lot of folks around.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

Next to love, balance is the most important thing.

Citing both the Buddha and Aristotle, Sachs makes the case for a "middle path," a path of moderation and balance between work and non-work (what he calls, quaintly in this day and age, "leisure"), savings and consumption, self-interest and compassion, individualism and citizenship.