Quotes About Moderation

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

We must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains. We must fight it as we should an illness. We must look after our health, use moderate exercise, take just enough food and drink to recruit, but not to overload, our strength. Nor is it the body alone that must be supported, but the intellect and soul much more.

The extreme of right is the extreme of wrong.

for my own part I cannot cordially approve, I merely tolerate, a philosopher who talks of setting bounds to the desires. Is it possible for desire to be kept within bounds? It ought to be destroyed, uprooted altogether.

Last year I abstained this year I devour without guilt which is also an art

Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.

I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.

No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic.

I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.

Sex is like drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.

Only fools, he said, were given to bragging about how much they could drink.

We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.

Its better to pace yourself throughout a big day like Thanksgiving by having something healthful for breakfast and something light for lunch.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

I don't really like thanksgiving food, i'm not worried about overeating.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.

It's the timing. I don't have to do it [drugs] all the time.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.