Quotes About Moderation

I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.

People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you.

I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

Good health is often a matter of good judgement.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

I think normalization is a good thing.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

Not everybody is going to run a marathon or do a triathlon. It's not necessary to do that to be in good health.

Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

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.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.