“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.Thomas Paine
“Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? William Shakespeare
“Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest. William Shakespeare
“Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. William Shakespeare
“No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man.A. J. Liebling