Quotes About Moderation

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.

Least said, soonest mended,' she always says. That and 'least seen, most admired.

Learn your own faults and vices; but do not assume that all of them should be eradicated. Sometimes, like beasts serving a greater master, they provide necessary balance and thus deserve indulgence; sometimes they are the indivisible shadows of virtues themselves.

it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

Against diseases here the strongest fence Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.

If we do not agree to reduce cruelty and moderate a situation intolerable for human beings," she said, "then they themselves will take things in hand.

Progress in America historically has come from thinkers and ideologues on both the left and the right, but the best of those ideas have been enacted into law through compromise. Now moderation is equated with lacking principles, and compromise with "selling out.

Basically, I reduced my needs.

Nothing to extremes, everything in moderation.

I became a vegetarian and I ate less.

You see, John, unless you reduce your needs, you will never be fulfilled. You will always be like that gambler in Las Vegas, staying at the roulette wheel for 'just one more spin' in the hope that your lucky number will come up. You will always want more than you have. How can you ever be happy?

careful not to overexpose

Y en mi vida personal, hago lo mismo: solo como la mejor comida, aunque en pequeñas cantidades; solo leo los libros más originales y profundos; paso el tiempo en los espacios más luminosos e inspiradores y visito los lugares más fascinantes.

The Golden Mean Doctrine, which states that virtuous behavior requires one to walk the middle ground between asceticism and indulgence. To take the path of moderation between excess and deprivation. To avoid being an extremist in any dimension of one's life. Here's a maxim that's worth remembering: Restriction promotes addiction.

My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.

My greatest skill has been to want little. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN A

When you indulge in wine let [it] be sparingly—never go beyond three glasses—but by no means every day.

Don't overwork like Coster just because you can and like to do it.

I don't see any harm myself in making a little money, provided that it can be done honestly and reasonably.

It is remarkable how much we all could do if we avoid hustling, and go along at an even pace and keep from attempting too much.

What I fear is that he may perhaps talk too much which would be very undesirable

Waste not, want not, make do and mend, don't make an exhibition of yourself.