Moderation Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image ““A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be.”” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Moderation
“It's not decent to be good at everything. Three or four things at the most. Even that is pushing the bounds of good taste.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“The important thing is to not assume that good is good enough, because even good things can always, always find a way to get… — David Sturt Copy Share Image
“It's sad that sometimes we let ourselves believe that if it's not bad, it must be good.” — Julie Murphy Copy Share Image
“How does it feel to be almost the best? It’s a bit like not being good enough at all, isn’t it?” — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
“Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now.” — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“Most people want to be good, but not that good and not all the time.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If the bad stuff didn’t exist, the good stuff wouldn’t seem so incredibly good.” — Allie Everhart Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter if things are good as long as people think they are. Perception.” — Ian Thomas Malone Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto. — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so… — Horace Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use Turns to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
