Excess In Moderation Quotes

#1. The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit.

Doug Stanhope

#2. Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once.

Doug Stanhope

#3. Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds - even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.

James Hilton

#7. First sons and daughters seduced to play and party 'til it was too late to realize they were being lead to the slaughter. They discounted the law of moderation.

T.F. Hodge

#8. I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

Tallulah Bankhead

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

Oscar Wilde

#10. A life lived in equal excess is one of moderation.

Charles Martin Hall

#11. We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous ... but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

Steve Maraboli

#12. Could hell be described as too much of anything without a break? Are variety,
moderation and balance instruments we use to keep us from boiling in any inferno of
excess,' whether it be cheesecake or ravenous sex?

Jean-Paul Sartre

#13. Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.

Richard L. Evans

#14. Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

Umar

#15. The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.

Phyllis McGinley

#16. In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

Baha'u'llah

#17. We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.

Tom Brokaw

#18. Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

Neil Peart

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

Mark Twain

#20. Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#21. Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

Robert A. Heinlein

#22. There is moderation even in excess.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero