Quotes about Moderation
God in His goodness sent the grapes, to cheer both great and small; little fools will drink too much, and great fools not at all.
- Anonymous
Take twice as long to eat half as much.
- Anonymous
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
- Cicero
We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
- Harry S. Truman
If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.
- Francis de Sales
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.
- Desmond Tutu
Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.
- Joel Rosenberg
Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye.
- Anonymous
I don't do alcohol anymore — I get the same effect just standing up fast.
- Anonymous
Your body is a temple, not a drive-through.
- Anonymous
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
- Anonymous
Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.
- Anonymous