Moderation Quotes

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until it seems to fall from the sky. I am thrilled. I am grateful. Then, by the end of morning, he's gone, nothing but silence out of the tree where he rested for a night. And this I find acceptable. Not enough is a poor life. But too much is, well, too much. Imagine Verdi or Mahler every day, all day. It would exhaust anyone.

It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

The best things are placed between extremes.

Excess weakens the spirits.

Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.

I love food, so having a lot of food allergies now and just having a really sensitive body, it forces me to be very mindful and conscious and eat when I'm hungry, not just when I'm bored, and just really slow down. Everything in moderation.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.[Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Too much is just enough.

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

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.

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

He who stands on tiptoedoesn't stand firm.He who rushes aheaddoesn't go far.He who tries to shinedims his own light.He who defines himselfcan't know who he really is.He who has power over otherscan't empower himself.He who clings to his workwill create nothing that endures.

Be merciful, moderate, and modest.

Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.