Quotes About Moderation

C'est une maladie d'être optimiste? Non, c'est une maladie de l'être trop. L'excès devient pathologique.

once a man has tasted strong drink, he finds wine insipid

La vertu devient morbide si elle n'est adoucie par quelques écarts, et la foi devient aisément cruelle si elle n'est atténuée par quelques doutes." (dans Léon l'Africain

My greed goes no further than having something to drink, clothing on my back and shelter for the night.

J'ai toujours eu de l'aversion à la fois pour les riches et pour les pauvres. Ma patrie sociale, c'est l'entre-deux. Ni les possédants, ni les revendicateurs. J'appartiens à cette frange médiane qui, n'ayant ni la myopie des nantis ni l'aveuglement des affamés, peut se permettre de poser sur le monde un regard lucide.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

And remember that friendship between a woman and a man is something much more precious and rare than love: love is actually something quite gross and even clumsy compared to friendship. Friendship includes a measure of sensitivity, attentiveness, generosity, and a finely tuned sense of moderation.

God created for you two eyes and two ears but one tongue so that you say half what you see and hear.

The more wine gets through your mouth the more silly words come out of it.

Two measures of wine send the doctor away, and four brings him back.

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

No, no, no, no. Don't get carried away, man. One thaw is not the summer.

As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Mao Zedong tried to regulate the rate of executions during the course of the campaign, sometimes encouraging greater vigilance, other times trying to moderate the campaign's ferocity. He intervened repeatedly through comments on reports, and at one point suggested a rate of 0.1 percent of the population as the proper level of executions.

Every once in a while you have to go out and treat your family and friends and stuff like that. Once every two months, I'd say, is when you do that. When you do it every weekend it gets a little excessive and the people around you start feeling like you have to do that every time you go out.

I will drink alcohol socially. That's really on the weekends.

I'm pretty healthy, so I eat a lot of vegetables and fish. But I'm a huge sweets fan. It's really bad. I love ice cream and cookies and cake and all that stuff. So on the weekends, I will definitely indulge.

I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.'

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I'm not the healthiest eater, but I try to watch what I eat during the week. I kind of splurge on the weekends and eat french fries and pizza.

My whole thing is I try to balance it as much as possible. I love to enjoy food. I've always said that if I eat healthy during the week, then I give myself more leeway to have some fun on the weekends. And I stick to the gym. I try to go five to six days a week.

About once every three and a half weeks, I need a Big Mac, but after that I'm fine.