Quotes About Moderation

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

I get a delivery of a diet food during the week, which doesn't mean that I don't eat the occasional Krispy Kreme doughnut.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

I think we have to understand that sugar is an essential component of food it's just that sugar in excess is an inappropriate and unhelpful diet.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.

He is not rich that possesses much but he that covets no more and he is not poor that enjoys little but he that wants too much.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.

He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough.

The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.

He is not rich that possesses much but he that is content with what he has.