Quotes about Moderation
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.
- Epictetus
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
- Confucius
He has enough who is contented with little.
- Anonymous
More than enough is too much.
- Anonymous
Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.
- Abraham Lincoln
Happy is he that chastens himself.
- Anonymous
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life.
- Abraham Lincoln
Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.
- Anonymous
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.
- Epictetus
Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
- Thomas a Kempis
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
- Thomas Jefferson