Quotes About Moderation In All Things

#1. Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

Xenophon

#3. Moderation in all things - including moderation.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. Moderation in all things

Aristotle.

#5. Practice moderation in all things except love.

Gary Zukav

#6. Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.

Mason Cooley

#7. Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

Herbert M. Shelton

#8. Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?

Maya Angelou

#9. Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

Charles Gounod

#10. After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.

T.F. Hodge

#12. Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Oscar Wilde

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

Robert A. Heinlein

#14. Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

#15. In everything the middle road is best.

Plautus

#16. There is moderation even in excess.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#18. Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.

Lord Chesterfield

#19. I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.

Martina Mcbride

#20. Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.

Rick Perlstein

#21. All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.

Monique Truong

#22. Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

William S. Burroughs

#23. The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.

Christopher Moore

#24. All extremes are dangerous.

Virginia Woolf

#25. Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.

Gautama Buddha

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

Mark Twain

#27. The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#28. I do think all things in moderation. I mean, the thing to me - it actually doesn't bother me very much if people want to read chick lit. But it makes me, you know, sort of disheartened when that's all that people want to read.

Cristina Henriquez

#29. I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Rachael Ray

#30. The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.

Lori Copeland

#31. Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

Harry Vardon

#32. Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

Garth Nix

#33. My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Robert E.Lee

#34. Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.

Summer Sanders

#35. I want, once and for all,
not to know many things.
Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge
as in other things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#36. Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

Barbara Bretton

#37. It is quite normal to see good intentions, when not carried out with moderation, urging men to actions which are truly vicious.

Michel De Montaigne

#38. In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#39. And there is a proud kind of moderation likewise, when men will take upon them to censure both parties, as if they were wiser than both,

Richard Sibbes

#40. The more wine I drink in moderation, the better I am.

Julia Barrett

#41. To go to any extreme is to limit oneself.

Marty Rubin

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

Henry A. Kissinger

#43. Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.

Alexander McCall Smith

#44. When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.

Laozi

#45. Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

Aristotle.

#46. It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

Sophie Swetchine

#47. People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

Michel De Montaigne

#48. In the early sixties, the notion that racism was not acceptable even in certain regions or certain clubs or certain circumstances - the notion that it could not be treated with moderation - was a notion largely confined to black people.

Calvin Trillin

#49. I drink a lot of water and I try to watch what I eat. The thing about me is I like healthy stuff, I like fruits and veggies, so it's all about moderation.

Ashton Shepherd

#50. Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Eminem

#52. Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

Benjamin Franklin

#53. I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.

Mat Hoffman

#54. Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.

Gian Kumar

#55. When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#56. I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.

Carla Hall

#57. Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

#58. Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Benjamin Disraeli

#59. I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

E.L. Doctorow

#60. Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Anne Sexton

#61. I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

Sandy Gallin

#62. Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

Thomas Carlyle

#63. Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation.

Og Mandino

#64. Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat.

Danny Pino