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| >It is better to rise from life as from a banquet – neither thirsty nor drunken. ~ Aristotle |
| I soon found out you can’t change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it. ~ Henry Miller |
| My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man’s self, and often troublesome to others. ~ Edmund Burke |
| No matter what happens… somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. ~ Dave Barry |
| From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. ~ Samuel Butler, |
| Enough is as good as a feast. ~ English Proverb |
We may outrun
By violent swiftness
And lose by over-running.
~ William Shakespeare |
| The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about. ~ Don Marquis |
| The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, |
| He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
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| Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~ Hindu Proverb |
| To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together… humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. ~ William Wordsworth |
| Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. ~ Epicurus |
| They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. ~ William Shakespeare |
| To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~ Confucius, |
| Everything in moderation, including moderation. ~ Author Unknown |
| Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor? ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring. ~ Edward Gorey |
| We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed. ~ Michel de Montaigne |