Moderation Quotes · Page 7

I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.

— W. S. Gilbert

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

— B.K.S. Iyengar

I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.

— Kate Walsh

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

— Epicurus

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

— Jane Jacobs

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

— Jenny Eclair

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

— Anonymous

“The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.”

— David C. Day

I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family,…

— Frankie Avalon

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

— Pliny the Elder

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is…

— Garth Nix

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities…

— Michel de Montaigne

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

— Lord Byron

I believe that a prosperous, democratic Pakistan will be a steadfast partner for America, a peaceful neighbor for India, and a force…

— George W. Bush

Life is like a refrigerator, you get what you want out of it and know what consequences may come if you are…

— Jennifer Amorelli

The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in…

— Phyllis McGinley

There is a fair amount of moderation on the site, not only for legal reasons, but for moral ones as well. We…

— David Baszucki

Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for…

— Voltaire

Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all. In moderation it can be a righteous force for constructive change. But…

— Rob Brezsny

As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into…

— Suzanne Somers

The darker the chocolate is, the more antioxidants it contains. So when eaten in moderation - just a few bites from a…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Ah. That is the price of love, I'm afraid—the pain one suffers from its loss. I'm not convinced it's worth it. Perhaps…

— Lisa Kleypas

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man…

— Francis Bacon

[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made…

— Gretchen Rubin

“Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd.…

— Milan Kundera

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

— Anne Sexton

There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

— H. Allen Smith

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

— Moliere

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.

— Jean de La Fontaine

This might be the wrong answer, but I kind of just eat whatever I want in moderation.

— Devon Windsor

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

— Barbara Bretton

Caution college life is highly addictive. Use in moderation. 7 Sep

— Anonymous

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

— Alexander Hamilton

“Nothing wrong with whips and needles, in moderation.”

— Terry Pratchett

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.

— Nancy Lam

“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be.”

— Thomas Paine