Moderation Quotes

"Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand."

“Abstaining is favourable both to the head and the pocket.”

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

“Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.”

“I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that "Let's Move" is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes.”

“If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.”

“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”

“Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.”

“The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.”

"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."

Hippocrates

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

Julia Child

“Eat with moderation agreeable food, and there will be no disease.”

Thiruvalluvar

“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”

“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”

Hippocrates

"Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments."

"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"One should eat to live, not live to eat."

Moliere

"Moderation in all things."

Terence

“Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.”

“If one eats with moderation, knowing when the previous meal has been digested, it is the way to prolong the life of the body.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Moderation in all things.”

Ancient Greek Proverb