Temperately Quotes

#1. The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

Jesse Torrey

#3. I have lived temperately ... I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

William Allen White

#5. He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Philip Massinger

#7. Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Magic doesn't come from talent, it comes from pain.

Lev Grossman

#10. We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.

Douglas Leone

#11. To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

Mark Epstein

#12. 2Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good. If you act too quickly, you might make a mistake.

Max Lucado

#13. just like my mother, and if I

Amy Tan

#14. I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.

Ben Carson

#15. My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

Gary Ross

#16. I began with the desire to speak with the dead.

Stephen Greenblatt

#17. Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.

Garth Brooks