Quotes About Moderation

My body was built through years of good food - and beer.

We haven't usually had to face the extreme questions about liberty and order because we're not a nation of extremists. We love freedom and good government both.

I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

You have to be sensible and grownup and conduct yourself in the right way. I'm 36, this is my 20th season as a professional, I know what you can and can't do, when's a good time to have a drink and when's a bad time.

I don't want to work more. I want to do limited but good work.

I think it is important to do good work and last longer than to do lot of work and burn out quickly.

The American people are not remarkable for moderation. They despise halfness. They will go with him who goes farthest and stay with him who stays longest. What the country thinks of half-men and half-measures is seen by the last election. We repudiate all such men and all such measures.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

That which you term moderation, I call mediocrity

I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things.

Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

Alcoholic drinks do not agree with me. A single glass of wine or beer a day is amply sufficient to turn life into a valley of tears for me.

I demand from a book harmony as unity and moderation; that determines the choice of words, the type and number of metaphors, the development and conclusion

It is wisdom, worldly wisdom, to administer even health to oneself for a long time in small doses.

Of two quite lofty things, measure and moderation, it is best never to speak. A few know their force and significance, from the mysterious paths of inner experiences and conversions: they honor in them something quite godlike, and are afraid to speak aloud. All the rest hardly listen when they are spoken about, and think the subjects under discussion are tedium and mediocrity.

These people who are always talking, reading, and thinking about sex are like singers who think more about their larynx than about singing. They make that which is subordinate to a higher purpose so all important that the harmony of life is upset.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.