How much is enough? Sometimes, that's a
difficult question to answer. When in doubt, consider the quotations that
follow:
Moderation Leads to
Happiness
“Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.”
Channing Pollack
“To live long, it is
necessary to live slowly.”
Cicero
“Too little and too much spoils everything.”
Danish Proverb
“Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.”
Edna Ferber
“Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and
you will be happy.”
Ben Franklin
“All philosophy lies in two words: sustain and abstain.”
Epictetus
About Eating
Sensibly
“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as
nature requires.”
Ben Franklin
“Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down
without one. ”
William Penn
“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.”
Ben Franklin
And Finally . .
.
“Rule your desires lest your desires rule you.”
Publilius Syrus
“Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness.”
Josh Billings
“The hardest time to tell: when to stop.”
Malcolm Forbes
This page was compiled by
Criswell Freeman, Psy.D.
