Quotes About Moderation

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

pure air, sunshine, properly prepared food, nonpoisonous herbs, water treatments, pure water to drink, abstemiousness (moderation), foods not robbed of their life-giving properties during manufacture, and cleanliness of body and premises.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

He counted thirteen virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquillity, chastity, and humility. Soon

People are living too much or too little, and I wondered if anyone out there is living the right amount.

The third conclusion I've made is: if governments are collaborating, so must we. When it comes to expression, one thing remains certain: no one will moderate the speech of governments or their officials. Sure, Twitter will fact-check Trump, and Facebook will boot members of foreign governments (and maybe someday even the president of the United States), but in the grand scheme of things, we might be watching the watchers, but no citizen has the power to silence them.

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason

Consider Augustus's motto. Hurry more slowly.

Of course no diets as rigid as those should be continued for more than two weeks. Some diet 'experts' — the ones who are still trying new ones because they haven't succeeded — tell you to diet five days a week and take the weekends off. I guess that's all right if you don't go berserk with chocolate éclairs and beer on Saturday and Sunday.

It was hard to be moderate in immoderate times.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

People no longer wanted right or left—they wanted middle-of-the-road.

Cora ci stava mettendo gli spaghetti nel piatto, e lui disse « basta » dopo due forchettate. Non mangiava molto, come tutti gli ambiziosi. Sapeva che il mangiare addormenta.

Her cupboards are crammed with Cappuccino mix. No one needs Cappuccino mix. It's not diginified. She watched 'Super Size Me' and went straight to McDonald's. She did the Atkins Diet, "but with potatoes.

if we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier;

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

High time, my girl - high time! Moderation in all things, remember. That's the plan"Let your moderation be known unto all men!"