Quotes About Moderation

My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.

I don't like to abuse alcohol-anything you abuse will abuse you back.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise

One of the simplest ways to decrease the frequency of negative thoughts is by selectively moderating expectations.

Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed, and still kept within the bounds of reason. If a person learns to control his instinctual desires, not because he has to, but because he wants to, he can enjoy himself without becoming addicted. A

I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.

balance invitation and challenge appropriately

I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.

So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.

Los críticos ven en los poemas la expresión de los sentimientos naturales humanos que prevalecían en el país antes de la incorporación de los ideales confucianos de corrección y moderación.

It was always better to say less.

Mom was impressed but didn't want me to go overboard, which was impossible, because I was still eating a lot. I just had taken a break from eating like a professional football player.

Thus, I never learned moderation. When I arrived at Dartmouth College in 1997, my attitude toward alcohol was that it was a delicious and dangerous treat that, when obtained, needed to be ingested quickly in case someone tried to take it away. You know, the way a raccoon eats from a garbage can.

can that be? You're not in good shape. And that is true! But this is the paradox of my life. I love running because it puts me in an instant good mood, and I think I read on the back of a box of Cheerios that it's good for my heart. But I also love alcohol, fast-food hamburgers, and eating gluten. So it's a perilous teeter-totter that I am trying to get away with until my doctors tell me I'm in trouble.

Those who attain the middle Dominate the whole.

The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.

Tout est question d'équilibre (Everything is a matter of balance):

Analyze your diary by determining what seems excessive in your judgment. You might begin by asking, "What could I live without—or at least with less of?

Tout est question d'équilibre