#Moderation Quotes

“Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.”

“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.*”

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

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

“O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!”

“They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.”

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

“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?”

“Great men should drink with harness on their throats.”

“Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.”

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

“Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.”

“Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.”

“An overflow of good converts to bad.”

“All surfeit is the father of much fast.”

“Can one desire too much of a good thing?”

“I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,But qualify the fire's extreme rage,Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.”

“Allow not nature more than nature needs.”

“Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.”

“Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”

“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”

“We never repent of having eaten too little.”

“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.”

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

“It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.”

“The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop”

“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.”

“Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.”

“All extremes are dangerous.”

“Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.”

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

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

“Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.”

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

“Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.”

“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.”

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

“I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.”

“Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.”

“Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. 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 a species of vice.”

“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.”

“Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.”

“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 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.”

“We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.”

“Chastity - you can carry it too far.”

“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.”

“Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.”

“The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.”

“All things in moderation, including moderation.”