Moderation Quotes
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
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Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.
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We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.
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I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.
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Don't overdo the booze especially while flying - just because it's there doesn't mean you need to drink it. Everything in moderation.
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I love collections of things, but always in moderation.
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I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
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One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.
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The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.
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Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?
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You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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By moderation one can be generous.
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Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.
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Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.
