He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

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

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

I’ve just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that’s the record.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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