Quotes about moderation

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.

— Aristotle

It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.

— Aristotle

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

— St. Augustine

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

— John Ciardi

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!

— Robert Clive

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.

— William Lloyd Garrison

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

— Horace

There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.

— Vera Johnson

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

— Henry Kissinger

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

— Klemens Von Metternich

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

— Ovid

You will go most safely in the middle.

— Ovid

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

— Thomas Paine

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.

— Thomas Paine

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

— Blaise Pascal

Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.

— Jean Paul

Let not turn fun to mischief.

— Proverb

Moderate profits fill the purse.

— Italian Proverb

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

— Seneca

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

— Seneca

He who drinks a glass a day shall live to die another way.

— Stanlicus

Everything in moderation -- including moderation.

— Harvey Steiman

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

— Mark Twain

It speaks volumes for a person that when placed in quite different situations, they display the same spirit of moderation.

— Source Unknown

Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.

— Source Unknown

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

— Frances E. Willard

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

— Oscar Wilde