Quotes About Moderation

The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

A man needs enough...no less, no more.

BASICS OF DIET AND HEALTH The basic principles of good diets are so simple that I can summarize them in just ten words: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables. For additional clarification, a five-word modifier helps: go easy on junk foods.

Complete abstention may be much easier than moderation.

When we try to make things go faster, we usually slow things down. When

In any case, the principles are simple: deny nothing; enjoy everything, but eat plants first and most. There's no gimmick, no dogma, no guilt, and no food police.

You shouldn't eat "unlimited" amounts of grains, as you would other plants, but eating grains several times a day is fine. -- In any case, eat far fewer carbohydrates; they are all treats, not off limits but to be eaten only occasionally (and with gusto).

The evil is not in extremes It's in the aftermath

You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed — in a modified way — 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot