The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry.…

— Joanne Harris

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

— William Shenstone

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

— Plutarch

Do nothing immoderate.

— Chilon of Sparta

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

— Baruch Spinoza

“Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.”

— Hippocrates

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

— Democritus

“prone to fits of ‘immoderate arrogance’.”

— Anonymous

A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love…

— Charles Darwin

I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

— Hanna Rosin

As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very intelligent. So…

— James Rothman

I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those people who thinks that because I have…

— Allen Covert

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun,…

— Kyle MacLachlan