Moderation Quotes

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.

True happiness springs from moderation.

Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

He that would travel much, should eat little.

Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. *Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

Too much success is not an advantage.Do not tinkle like jadeOr clatter like stone chimes.

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

I only ever play Vegas one night at a time.

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

I think it is important that we go and bring both of the parties together. The more we go to the left, the more we go to the right, I believe of what President Eisenhower said, "Politics is like the road. The left and the right represents the gutter, and the middle is drivable."

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

All things in moderation, including moderation.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

By moderation one can be generous.

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

All extremes are dangerous.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

True happiness springs from moderation.[Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

Indeed, moderation is my middle name (though I do not often use it in signing legal documents)

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.

The superior man limits his achievements.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.