All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact the majority of the Muslims living in our society are moderate people. But don't make the mistake… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently].… — Mohammed Omar Copy Share Image
The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They're not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity,… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Conservatism's not the answer. The Republican Party has to reach out, moderate and modify its views to be able to accommodate radical… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I'm a moderate and a centrist. That means I get flak from both sides. The upside is that I can vote for… — Michael Totten Copy Share Image
If we mix only a moderate minority share of turds with the raisins each year, probably no one will recognize what will… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I think that really, when we look at this whole process, we can come to the conclusion that there is no such… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Barack Obama won such a big electoral mandate because a lot of people thought he was - transcended partisan and ideological barriers… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
I exercise regularly. I eat moderate amounts of healthy food. I make sure to get plenty of rest. I see my doctor… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension… — Louis Pierre Mouillard Copy Share Image
The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The best that can be said for those like Senators Nelson and Landrieu is that they held out until Obama and Reid… — Burt Prelutsky Copy Share Image