Moderation Quotes · Page 9

Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

— Ambrose Bierce

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

— Amelia Barr

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

— Barbara Bretton

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

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

— Doug Stanhope

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying…

— Doutzen Kroes

The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not…

— John Dryden

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

— Charles Darwin

Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds…

— Henry David Thoreau

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit…

— Pope John Paul II

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum…

— Plautus

I eat mostly organic, but I love macaroni and cheese, Mexican food, and egg-and-cheese croissants. So when I indulge, I eat protein…

— Marisa Miller

Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical…

— Jostein Gaarder

“My suspicion is that, like me, most of you reading these pages are drawn to extremes. Moderation bores you. You seek challenges…

— Dean Karnazes

One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Thomas Paine

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

— Nancy Lam

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

— David Gilmour

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Anonymous

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

— Jenny Eclair

“Moderation is like a foreign language. You have to learn that shit when you're young.”

— Joey Comeau

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

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

— David C. Day

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

— Mark Twain

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Moliere