quotes about Moderation
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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
-- Alexander Pope -
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
-- Anne SextonSource : Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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It does people good to have to do things they don't like in moderation.
-- Anne Shirley -
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.
-- Barbara BrettonSource : Barbara Bretton (2001). “A Soft Place to Fall”, Berkley
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In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
-- Barbara Taylor BradfordSource : Barbara Taylor Bradford (1987). “A Woman of Substance”, Bantam
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Moderation in all things - including moderation.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.
-- Betty BoothroydSource : 1995 In The Independent, 9 Feb.
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For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.
-- Bobby Flay -
I say no to nothing, yes to moderation. Thats how I approach everything. No matter if its candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, youre satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
-- Carla Hall -
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I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living.
-- Carnie Wilson -
Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry
-- Christopher Paolini -
In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.
-- Compay Segundo -
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Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.
-- David Gilmour -
Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
-- Democritus -
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
-- Democritus -
For me, temperance is essential to good work.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs -
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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
-- Epictetus -
No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!
-- Evel Knievel -
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
-- Frances E. Willard -
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character....
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Practice moderation in all things except love.
-- Gary Zukav -
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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
-- Gautama Buddha -
There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.
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It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.
-- Hanan AshrawiSource : "Peace process in limbo after Barak calls 'timeout'", www.cnn.com. October 22, 2000.
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Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.
-- Harry Vardon -
The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.
-- Helen Suzman -
Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.
-- Herbert M. Shelton -
Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.
-- Horace -
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Be moderate in everything, including moderation.
-- Horace Porter -
When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.
-- Husayn ibn AliSource : "Bihārul Anwār" by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, vol.78, p. 128,
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Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.
-- Jay McInerney -
I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.
-- Jenny EclairSource : "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.
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There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
-- John Ciardi -
Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.
-- John Milton -
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Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.
-- Joseph Joubert -
I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
-- Kate Walsh -
Commitment is never an act of moderation!
-- Kenneth G. Mills -
So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.
-- Kenneth H. Cooper -
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Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
-- Klemens von Metternich -
My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.
-- Lindsay Lohan -
One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
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Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Â Moderation is for cowards.
-- Marcus Luttrell -
I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.
-- Mark Twain -
Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
-- Neil PeartSource : Neil Peart (2002). “Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road”, p.354, ECW Press
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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.
-- Oscar Wilde -
If you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
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I stand astonished at my own moderation
-- Robert CliveSource : Quoted in G. R. Gleig, The Life of Robert, First Lord Clive (1848)
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I'm a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation.
-- Robert Genn -
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 -
Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.
-- Ryan RobbinsSource : AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.
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I love collections of things, but always in moderation.
-- Sandy Gallin -
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Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.
-- Seal -
My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.
-- Sean Astin -
I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now.
-- Shane WarneSource : "Shane Warne: I haven't had surgery.. my new look is the radiant glow of love" by Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 02, 2011.
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It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
Moderation in all things.
-- TerenceSource : Terence, R. H. Martin (1976). “Adelphae”, p.118, Cambridge University Press
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I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
-- W. S. Gilbert -
I feel like you can eat everything that you want in moderation.
-- Devon WindsorSource : Source: www.elle.com
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Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.
-- Flann O'Brien -
I've been a vegetarian, I've been a Paleo, and now I believe in the everything-in-moderation diet.
-- Gretchen Bleiler -
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de CourcellesSource : "A Mother's Advice to Her Son". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1726.
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True faith, real and pure faith, cannot be practiced in moderation.
-- Steve Arterburn -