Quotes About Moderation

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

Life is too short to work so hard.

Learn the wisdom of compromise for it is better to bent a little than to break.

Sometimes people who want more than they can handle end up losing everything altogether. Greed and selfishness will get you nowhere in life

Life is about balance; too much and too little can kill. The best way to balance life is setting your boundaries and learning to say enough.

Being tired is worse than being drunk, I speak my mind to much when I'm tired.

Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

down too much beef jerky. What he'd really been

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

We pray, give us this day our daily bread—not our daily caneton à la presse. Luxury should be the détente after work, the riot after abstinence, one should not become used to it.

I crave the gift of recreational shallowness. The trick of knowing when to be cleverly trivial, lightweight; when to avoid emotional excess.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Be as rich as to afford a modest, care-free existence.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.