Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
, FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT There is moderation even in excess.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my fa...
FRANKIE AVALON Everything in moderation.
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family...
FRANKIE AVALON Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.
OSCAR WILDE Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
OSCAR WILDE Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.
OSCAR WILDE My diet has definitely become greener; however, I am a big proponent of everything in moderation. I ...
IVANKA TRUMP Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert ...
GREGORY BENFORD Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
MARK TWAIN Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a di...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good ...
BRANDON SANDERSON There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of win...
ABIGAIL THOMAS Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a ...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Everything is good in moderation. Even moderation.
IVETA CHERNEVA Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
CICERO Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
HARVEY STEIMAN Everything in moderation, including moderation.
OSCAR WILDE Everything in moderation, including moderation.
HARVEY STEIMAN My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everythin...
NINA DOBREV Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of...
OSCAR WILDE Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON Everything in moderation, including moderation itself!
ROGER WAGNER (HYPERSTUDIO) A couple of years ago my sister Judy and I were each given a box of truffles. The tiny print said tw...
ABIGAIL THOMAS I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON There is moderation in everything.
HORACE I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportun...
SAMMY SOSA Life is like an apple. You gradually take bites and eventually, you get to the core.
CARLY MICHELLE The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
GEORGE NORMAN DOUGLAS Everything in Africa bites, but the safari bug is worst of all.
BRIAN JACKMAN Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
HIPPOCRATES (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON The darker the chocolate is, the more antioxidants it contains. So when eaten in moderation - just a...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore ha...
C. JOYBELL C. Have & Have Not
SAVAN SOLANKI There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS With everything there is what to do.
AULIQ ICE One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't get so caught up in everything that you think you're supposed to do that you forget to enjoy t...
AKIROQ BROST Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet a...
AARON KOBLIN You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you...
SUZANNE SOMERS Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
NICK TOSCHES We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial...
TOM BROKAW Be moderate in everything, including moderation.
HORACE PORTER Be moderate in everything, including moderation
HORACE PORTER In a family argument, if it turns out you are right -- apologize at once!
LAZARUS LONG Thank Life For Happening, Thank Every Twist And Turn, There Is A Reason For Every Single Thing, Ther...
DANTE JANNICELLI Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a di...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a d...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a di...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Their Spenser, Robert Urich, is big, graceful, good-looking and young (a runner-up in the Robert B. ...
ROBERT PARKER Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither...
DAN MILLMAN I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I'm a pretty petite...
NATURI NAUGHTON In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.
PLAUTUS A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you ...
GERALD R. FORD A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you ...
UNKNOWN THE GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in new things; A GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasu...
STEVE GOODIER Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Even years from now, once I've stopped drinking, I will never stop trusting extremes. I will always ...
KOREN ZAILCKAS If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away every...
GERALD R. FORD If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away every...
GERALD FORD A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
DONALD TRUMP A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
DONALD TRUMP May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take awa...
DAVY CROCKETT Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take awa...
BARRY GOLDWATER It takes no time for a small drama in life to become a wide screen cinema with a big blown music for...
ANUJ SOMANY Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
TERI GARR Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...
CRAIG GROESCHEL TAKE A STAND RIGHT NOW! BECAUSE tomorrow IS THE ONLY DAY OF THE WEEK THAT NEVER COMES!!
PHILIP T. M. The monks have tried everything and failed; the virtuous have grown weary of singing God's Glories.
ATHARVA VEDA EVERYTHING IN MODERATION IS USUALLY STATED BY A REAL TALENT DOING AVERAGE WORK, OR NOTHING - Bruce B...
BRUCE BANTER I work out, and I try to stay active and fit so I can enjoy certain foods that I like to eat. I try ...
CAMERON MATHISON Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of per...
ROBIN SHARMA Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Enjoy the little things in life, of-course the big things too, forget all the bad things and I bet y...
SEGEV LAYANI Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
RAINER MARIA RILKE We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are...
BILL WATTERSON Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in...
SAINT BERNARD Remember that everything that is happening around you, good or bad, is in some way conspiring to hel...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society
SYDNEY SMITH Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation,...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We think this is a first in the history of business. We've selected a product spokesperson without e...
STEVE DAVIS There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I came, I saw, she conquered."
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Live and learn, or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no such thing as "Just a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don’t want....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Television leaves no external scars.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings bec...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Mother Thing makes our world.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN More depended on the student than on the school.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.
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