Quotes about Moderation

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

What I glory in is the civilized, middle way between stink and asepsis. Give me a little musk, a little intoxicating feminine exhalation, the bouquet of old wine and strawberries, a lavender bag under every pillow and potpourri in the corners of the drawing-room. Readable books, amusing conversation, civilized women, graceful art and dry vintage, music, with a quiet life and reasonable comfort?—that's all I ask for.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

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.

Take twice as long to eat half as much.

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

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.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.