Quotes About Moderation

If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.

if you stop "thrashing your liver" into an early state of exhaustion, you will add many years to your life.

The truth was, there was no way everything could be the Best. Sometimes, when it came to events and people, it had to be okay to just be .

Oh, if only that was the last time in America that the extreme left and extreme right broke down and made a mess of things, leaving everyone in the center to suffer.

You take too many pills of every kind—first stimulants and then depressants, anodynes followed by analeptics, until the poor organism doesn't know what's happened.

please practice moderation. Your mind, your knowledge, your talents offer you resources to happiness! Be a man, and conquer this tragic devotion from a creature who can do nothing but pity you.

So now, even if I wanted to, I could not become a moderate person. Still, I love life and do not want my high-spirited personality to kill me, as it almost did in my youth. This is one reason that motivated me to discover

In politics the middle way is none at all.

I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.

I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

Something can (has) been said for sobriety but very little.

Wi?cej za pomoc? mniej.

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.

The ancient proverb says, "Satiety   produces disgust

Here, if any where, in considering the hidden mysteries of Scripture, we should speculate soberly and with great moderation, cautiously guarding against allowing either our mind or our tongue to go a step beyond the confines of God's word.

But we must so cherish moderation that we do not try to make God render account to us, but so reverence his secret judgments as to consider his will the truly just cause of all things.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Era um desses instrumentos de bom tamanho, que seus proprietários governam melhor do que aqueles pesadões e excessivos.

One of the virtues of drink was how it reduced life to these simple matters, which engaged all the attention; seeing, walking, raising a bottle accurately to the hole in your face. As though you were two years old again. No thoughts but simple ones. And

What would it be like if the highly visible figures in the life of a nation started to set examples of moderation and humility rather than excessiveness and arrogance?

Who think too little, and who talk too much.

They think too little who talk too much.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.