Quotes About Moderation

lower dose, which, like the building codes in California that are designed to prevent damage from earthquakes, allowed my mind and emotions to sway a bit.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Too much of anything reduces the overall effect of happiness and satisfaction.

History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

The greatest power available to man is not to use it.

Take it easy when you are busy! It shall never be easy but, take it easy!

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

Fill up the goblet, and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum....

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

Let good digestion wait on appetite and health on both.

Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

One draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him.

They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.

Do not give dallianceToo much the rein.

Happy in that we are not over happy.

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.