Benjamin Franklin Quotes

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.

Lust is an appetite that needs to be regulated.

Try not to make every eating transgression at once. When I go out, I won't ever do both dessert and drinks. Just pick one.

If there's something I like, I'm going to eat a little more of it than most people.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

Instead of piling up food in my fridge that says 'Come eat me!' I keep enough for only a couple of days. And I rarely have treats around that might tempt me late at night, which is when I usually crave something really fattening. What am I going to do? Drive out at 11 at night just to satisfy a craving? No, that's crazy.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

There is moderation even in excess.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.