Immoderate Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which…
— Edmund Burke
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It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray…
— George S. Patton
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
— Baruch Spinoza
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For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate…
— Thomas Piketty
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But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well…
— James Madison
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As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and…
— Daniel Defoe
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
— Democritus
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There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied…
— Edward Gibbon
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He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.
— Vincent de Paul
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Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the…
— Gautama Buddha
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The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its…
— Louis Aragon
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Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the…
— Saint Basil
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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. I…
— Joanne Harris
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I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,†he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.
— Lisa Kleypas
Who Wrote These Immoderate Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 20 Immoderate Quotes as follows: