Moderation Quotes - Page 2

• All things in moderation, including moderation.

  Socrates

  All Things, Including, Moderation In All Things

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• Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Ears, Refrain

  Jean de La Fontaine, Marianne Moore (1954). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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  Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  Barry Goldwater

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Gay

  Speech accepting nomination for president at Republican National Convention, San Francisco, Cal., 16 July 1964

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• The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Lying, Pleasure, Rings

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• There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

  John Ciardi

  Drinking, Beer, Sobriety

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• The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

  John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

  Military, War, Essence

  Lecture notes 1899-1902, in R. H. Bacon Life of Lord Fisher (1929) vol. 1, ch. 7

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• When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Men, Total War

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.168, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Genius, Literature, Nodding

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• That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

  Seneca the Younger

  Desire, Needs, Want

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• Moderation in all things.

  Terence

  Wisdom, Advice, All Things

  Terence, R. H. Martin (1976). “Adelphae”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• Everything in moderation.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Everything In Moderation

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• Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
  [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

  Horace

  Mean, Envy, Tutus

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• Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

  Mark Twain

  Causes, Temperance

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.242, Courier Corporation

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• Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

  Tacitus

  Generosity, Ruins, Candor

  "Quote Junkie: Greek and Roman : An Interesting Collection of Quotes from the Greatest Greek and Roman Philosophers and Leaders". Book edited by the Hagopian Institute, p. 62, 2008.

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• True happiness springs from moderation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spring, True Happiness

  "Die Naturliche Tochter". II. 5. 79, 1803.

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• Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Mind, Virtue

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1671, Delphi Classics

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• As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Marijuana, Smoking

  Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Rain, Food

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Spirit, Calm

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• Moderation in all things - including moderation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Drug, All Things

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• Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Self Improvement, Drink

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.126, Applewood Books

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• The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Giving, Calm

  "Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, No. 18, 1665.

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• There is moderation even in excess.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Excess

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• Practice moderation in all things except love.

  Gary Zukav

  Practice, Moderation In All Things, All Things

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Apr 15, 2012

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• Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

  John Milton

  Bears, States, Adverse

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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