Moderation Quotes · Page 13

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

— H. Allen Smith

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

— Joey Comeau

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

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

— Samuel Johnson

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 lifestyle I grew up with is still the lifestyle I live now: things in moderation, be smart with what you have.

— Luke Kuechly

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”

— Anonymous

It's not bad to sit down and have a drink occasionally. I'm not saying don't drink period. Everything in moderation.

— Chad Michael Murray

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming…

— Jenny McCarthy

If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour,…

— Michel de Montaigne

I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot…

— Rhea Seehorn

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef…

— Michael Symon

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when…

— Joseph Joubert

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against…

— Aeschylus

The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has…

— Anonymous

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Moderation leads to Mediocrity, Intensity leads to Excellence.”

— Suleman Abdullah

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

— Devon Windsor

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

— Jean de La Fontaine

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

— Barbara Bretton

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I do tend to eat healthily most of the time, but I don't restrict myself. I believe in eating anything and everything…

— John Barrowman

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

— Paul Gauguin

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost…

— Joseph Addison

It's all about everything in moderation. If I want a glass of wine I'm going to have it, or some chocolate -…

— Christina Anstead

“Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party”

— Thomas E. Mann