Quotes about Moderation

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.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.

Ain't one limb enough?

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.