Quotes About Moderation

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

No one says always or never. Everyone says sometimes.

That which is by nature private or a man's own is the body and only the body.[37] The needs or desires of the body induce men to extend the sphere of the private, of what is each man's own, as far as they can. This most powerful striving is countered by music education which brings about moderation, i.e., a most severe training of the soul of which, it seems, only a minority of men is capable. [37] Republic , 464d; cf. Laws 739c.

If you stop eating donutes you will live 3 years longer.It's just 3 more years that you want a donut. < . ) < .

I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.

He was a man who evidently felt very little; she was a woman who felt, perhaps, too much.

No, wait, I drink any more java, I'm gonna start pissing Colombians.

Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Be aware of too much wisdom!

One gains more from a fast than a feast.

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

Let the smokers and the gluttons die... and leave the living to us who know how to use it.

Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

Happiness is never grand.

What I glory in is the civilized, middle way between stink and asepsis. Give me a little musk, a little intoxicating feminine exhalation, the bouquet of old wine and strawberries, a lavender bag under every pillow and potpourri in the corners of the drawing-room. Readable books, amusing conversation, civilized women, graceful art and dry vintage, music, with a quiet life and reasonable comfort?—that's all I ask for.