All things in moderation, including moderation. — Socrates
Everything in moderation, including moderation. — Oscar Wilde
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
[Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu;
Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.] — Plautus
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. — Joseph Hall
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. — Epicurus
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. — Thomas Paine
Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. — Julia Child
Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending. — Robert W. Service
Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue. — Lao Tzu
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. — Frances E. Willard
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. — Epictetus
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. — Oscar Wilde
Good health is about balance and moderation, not extremes. — Rhonda Patrick
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates
Everything In Moderation Quotes
When you use defense mechanisms like 'Everything in moderation,' 'You only live once,' and the like, you disguise the fact that over years and decades, those little ice cream outings can add up literally to hundreds of pounds of ingested substances that are toxic to your body. — Mark Sisson
I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it. — Giada De Laurentiis
I do tend to eat healthily most of the time, but I don't restrict myself. I believe in eating anything and everything in moderation and doing some exercise. — John Barrowman
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
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
Everything in moderation - that's what I live by. — David Gilmour
You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal. — Suzanne Somers
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I’m a pretty petite young woman, and I just do everything in moderation and make sure that I just keep everything together. — Naturi Naughton
Don't overdo the booze especially while flying - just because it's there doesn't mean you need to drink it. Everything in moderation. — Alan Titchmarsh
Everything in moderation, with occasional excess. — Neil Peart
I enjoy it [smoking marijuana] once in a while. There is nothing wrong with that. Everything in moderation. I wouldn't call myself a pot-head. — Jennifer Aniston
Live In Moderation Quotes
I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long. — Evelyn Waugh
Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately. — Plato
I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually. — Robert Mondavi
My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation. — Lindsay Lohan
He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain. — Buddha
We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives. — Sonny Perdue
One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too
deeply? — Diane Ackerman
The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity. — Buddha
Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker. — Ann Patchett
Moderation Quotes
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly. — Hippocrates
There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key. — Jimmy Buffett
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. — Moli
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional — Matthew Gray Gubler
The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim. — Marco Polo
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton
Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards. — Marcus Luttrell
Being Moderate Quotes
You must be deadly serious in training. When I say that, I do not mean that you should be reasonably diligent or moderately in earnest. I mean that your opponent must always be present in your mind, whether you sit or stand or walk or raise your arms. — Gichin Funakoshi
Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad. — Ron Funches
Inadequate sleep—even moderate reductions for just one week—disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that you would be classified as pre-diabetic. — Matthew Walker
The frog wanted to be an ox and swelled up until he burst — Greek Proverbs
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure. — Bertrand Russell
It’s unrealistic not to be able to indulge. — Hannah Bronfman
Knowledge, like food, must be taken within limits. You must know only as much as you need, and not more. — R.K. Narayan
Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep. — Voltaire
When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity. — C. L. R. James
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? — Princess Diana
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
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. — General Robert E. Lee
Be moderate in all things, including moderation. — Oscar Wilde
Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome. — Herbert M. Shelton
Practice moderation in all things except love. — Gary Zukav
All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path. — Mohammed Omar
Moderation in all things - including moderation. — Benjamin Franklin
In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil. — Bahá'u'lláh
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. — Horace
Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it. — Mason Cooley
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess.
We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Wilde
I'm a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation. — Robert Genn
Moderation in all things, especially moderation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Let's not even talking about chain migration, immigration, which is another trick, but all of these things are designed to penetrate the heart exactly is it has yours so that there can be a modification in the law, a moderation of the law here for this instance, and over here for another instance, and there for another. — Rush Limbaugh
Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do. — Andre Gide
Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious endeavour. It is not introspection. Do not desire to become a buddha; let sitting or lying down drop away. Be moderate in eating and drinking. Be mindful of the passing of time, and engage yourself in zazen as though you are saving your head from fire. — Dogen
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
All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance. — Francois Rabelais
Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know? — Maya Angelou
Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller. — Harry Vardon
The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. — Jaron Lanier
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change. — Solon
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto. — Barbara Bretton
Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once again. As for the clothes I wear and the food I eat, I shall have the same as cowherds and grooms and I shall treat my soldiers as brothers. In a hundred battles I have been at the forefront and within seven years I have performed a great work, for in six directions of space all things are subject to one ruler. — Genghis Khan
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
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
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