Quotes about Moderation

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more.

Too much focus on PC is like a person who runs three or four hours a day, bragging about the extra ten years of life it creates, unaware he's spending them running.

Next to love, balance is the most important thing.

Love ice cream. I let myself have that about once a week. Vanilla.

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Temperance is love in training.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.