Quotes About Moderation

You can't read all the time.

Perhaps animals are smarter than men, he thought, taking only what they need to live today leaving something for tomorrow.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

No todos en la vida somos buenos o malos, casi todos estamos en un punto medio

No siempre hay un bueno. Ni siempre hay un malo. Casi todo el mundo esta en un punto intermedio

No siempre hay un bueno. Ni siempre hay un malo. Casi todo el mundo está en un punto intermedio.

Non sempre c'è un buono. Come non c'è sempre un cattivo. La maggior parte delle persone è una via di mezzo fra le due cose.

We were none of us particularly drunk. But then again, none of us were particularly sober either. Our exact positioning between these two points is a matter of pointless conjecture, and I will waste no time on it.

I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying to much".

It's like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that's fine. If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake. But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that's not very cool. It's not just selfish, it's kinda sick and unhealthy.

It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy.

Less is More. It's the Chocolate Chip in your cookie. Yes, it's delicious. But you can't have a cookie that's *all* chocolate chip. It just doesn't work.

Half a loaf being better than none, I

feo, desde luego, pero no hasta el extremo de causar espanto.

Careful how you bare yer soul Careful not to bare it all

You must get used to doing with as little as you can. By wanting less, you are content with less, and the less you need, the better off you are.

We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days!

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. —Bill Hoest

If you enjoy your alcohol, remember this: If you put your old, rotten used-up liver under your pillow, the Beer Fairy will leave you a keg.

I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself; things like clean air, green grass, children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one's abilities, plain tasty food, and occasional satisfying nookie.

Less is more, more or less.

The best kind of self-control is to avoid situations that require self-control

a true Hawaiian doesn't eat until he is full, he eats until he is tired.