Quotes About Moderation

A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.

Be superior to pleasure.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

I don't believe in fad diets.

Nothing good happens after two a.m. Unless you happen to be a fan of watching people play flip cup for hours on end. Not me. No, I'd much prefer to be in my flannel pajamas with a cup of Night-Night tea and a book, thank you very much.

It's a known fact in life that you can't have everything

Barely is enough for now.

If only I'd remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep.

When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him.

A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; [s]he lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate [his or her] spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the borderline emotionally bleeds to death.