Moderation Quotes

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

Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
Roberto Benigni

Moderation is the secret of survival.
Manly Hall

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
Anne Sexton

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
John Arbuthnot Fisher

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.
Artie Lange

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed

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

Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature.
Lucan Lucan

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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

Whatever you do, do it in moderation.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

There is moderation even in excess.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

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.

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

You will go most safely in the middle.







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