Quotes About Moderation

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

I like to go home early, that's my thing. My idea of a pub crawl lasts from midday until 5 P.M., then I can go home, play with my kid, have tea and go to bed.

I don't want to be one of those people who falls out of cabs drunk. But I don't want to be known as some boring girl who just sits at home and doesn't do anything.

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

Don't eat till you're full, eat till you're tired.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.

A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay

He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.

Kid, I've only known you two days and I've seen you plastered three times." He shook his head. "A bar would not be a good career move for you.

If my liver cared enough, it would have told me to stop. - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster.

I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda.

I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.

Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple pleasures. It helped everyone get through their days.

Have some carrots. They're good for your eyes.""Then you have some fries. They're good for your... I don't know. They're just good.

My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.