Quotes about Moderation

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in all things write the word finis in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent, draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

Be flirty but not too flirty. Be confident but not aggressive. Be funny but in a low-key, quiet way. Eat cheeseburgers, but don't get fat. Be chill, but don't lose control.