Quotes About Moderation

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.

In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance.

I can't have a big breakfast or a big lunch because I get very lethargic, and then I get really cranky. I eat, but I have to eat small, healthful amounts of food.

I'd rather climb 14a and eat whatever I want than climb 14d and measure out my food.

I do not drink more than a sponge.

Food is my friend and consistency is the key.

Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!