Quotes About Moderation

It does people good to have to do things they don't like...in moderation.

I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is TOO MUCH. I told Mrs. Hammond so firmly, when the last pair came.

Her advice is much like pepper, I think . . . excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses.

Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

But betray too eager curiosity she would not.

Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little of it is a good thing — not too much, of course — but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.  

Ä°nsanlar?n sevmedikleri ÅŸeyleri yapmalar? iyidir. A??r?ya kaçmadan tabii.

If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk

Desire isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we need to see how pervasive and driven this whole tendency is, and bring some balance to it, so that we give ourselves some choices.

It's not so much

Norwegian way of keeping all our earthly affairs from achieving too much importance.

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

I didn't like having my inhibitions lowered. If i was going to cut loose, i wanted to be in control of just how loose i got.

We must eat, drink, sleep, be idle, have sex, love, touch the sweetest things in life and yet not succumb to them.

que la naturaleza no era ni muy pródiga ni muy tacaña a la hora de conceder los dones del genio y de la inteligencia a sus habitantes;—sino que, como un progenitor juicioso, era moderadamente benigna con todos ellos;

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

When my stomach grumbled, I filled up on hamburgers, hot dogs, gyros, tacos, jerk chicken, pizza, and a side salad because I was watching my figure

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

An unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is hell. We talk too much.

Short is the way from need to greed.