John Chrysostom Quotes

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

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

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!

I think sometimes less is more. I don't think it helps to overdo exercising - I think you need to do it to keep your body healthy and fit, but there is a fine line between, you know, healthy and obsession. You have to build your foundation first. Your brain has to sort of connect to your body.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

He who loves wine … shall not be rich.

Mrs. Hayes has been from childhood a total abstainer. I was not a total abstainer when I became President. But the discussions which arose over the change at the President's house soon satisfied me that in this matter, if our example was to be useful, there was no half-way house for me. During the greater part of my term and at least for the last three years, I have been in practice and in theory a total-abstinence man, and I shall continue to be so. All statements inconsistent with the foregoing are without foundation.

Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

I don't drink a lot. My family calls me an old soul. And my friends call me a pussy.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.