Moderate Quotes

256 quotes by 219 authors

For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. — Joshua Reynolds
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence. — Walter Savage Landor
Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it. — Seneca the Younger
I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. — Francis Bacon
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men… — Bertrand Russell
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. — Epicurus
Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate. — Robert C. Solomon
The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too… — Mel Gibson
Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may… — Thomas Malthus
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism.… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to… — Richard L. Evans
I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's… — Ann Coulter
It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which… — Alexander Hamilton
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when… — Alexander Hamilton
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most… — Oliver Goldsmith
These are times when what used to be called liberal is now called radical; what used to be called radical is now called insane; what… — Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it? — Dan Rather
Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative. — Emilio Estevez

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