Moderation Quotes

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

But God never seems capable of moderation

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

On my show I share all these yummy, fattening recipes, but I tell people, in moderation, in moderation. You can have that little piece of pie.

If you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.

Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

I try to eat well, but I don't deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.

I eat what I want but in moderation.

It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

Here's to responsibility, twice a week.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

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

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

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.

Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.

Extremities are flawed. Moderation is ideal, save for one occasion.So damn these eyes that weep too much.This mind that thinks too much. But never this heart that loves too much.

Amazing how too much passion in one part of your life can destroy passion in other parts of your life.

The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.

The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.

A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.

Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

First sons and daughters seduced to play and party 'til it was too late to realize they were being lead to the slaughter. They discounted the law of moderation.

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.