Moderation Quotes

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Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.

Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once.

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

I do tend to eat healthily most of the time, but I don't restrict myself. I believe in eating anything and everything in moderation and doing some exercise.

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

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

Commitment is never an act of moderation!

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.

All extremes are dangerous.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.

You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.