Moderation Quotes - Page 8

• I don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped. You know what I mean, it's not really complicated. I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Drinking, Mean, Who I Am

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'I was moody, mercurial... it was all or nothing'". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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• 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.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Too Much, Enough, Ifs

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• I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight

  Melissa Etheridge

  Pain, Night, Justice

  Melissa Etheridge, Laura Morton (2011). “The Truth Is . . .: My Life in Love and Music”, p.90, Random House

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• The winds that never moderation knew,
  Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
  Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.

  John Dryden

  Blow, Wind, Joy

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.7

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• Wisdom comes through suffering.
  Trouble, with its memories of pain,
  Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
  So men against their will
  Learn to practice moderation.
  Favours come to us from gods.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Memories, Heart

  Aeschylus (2007). “The Oresteia”, p.13, RicherResourcesPublications

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• ... I gave as an offering my all to Him Who had won me and saved me, my property, my fame, my health, my very words... In considering all these things, I preferred Christ. And the words of God were made sweet as honeycombs to me, and I cried after knowledge and lifted up my voice for wisdom. There was moreover the moderation of anger, the curbing of the tongue, the restraint of the eyes, the discipline of the belly, and the trampling under foot of the glory which clings to the earth.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Sweet, Eye, Voice

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• The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation, bring great evil upon men. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Knowing. If carried to excess, civilization will prove as prolific a source of evil as it had been of goodness when kept within the restraints of moderation.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Art, Men, Civilization

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• The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Hands, Humanity, United States

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.138

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• I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Judgement, Brain, Caution

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• Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Passion, Way

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The Academic Questions, Treatise de Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.114

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• As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.

  Herbert Spencer

  Fall, Self, Long

  "The Principles of Ethics" by Herbert Spencer, (Ch. 10), 1897.

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• 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

  Crush, Spiritual, Thinking

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• Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

  Betty Boothroyd

  Language, Characteristics, Temper

  1995 In The Independent, 9 Feb.

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• The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated... Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Courage, Fighting, Democracy

  "Journeying to democracy" by Benazir Bhutto, archive.boston.com. October 18, 2007.

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• He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  War, Essence, Violence

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• Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline and moderation. Explorations among the ruins of the remote past have carried curious men all over the face of the earth… Yet in truth, no science is more adventurous than archaeology, if adventure is thought of as a mixture of spirit and deed.

  C. W. Ceram

  Adventure, Past, Men

  "Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology".

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• Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sobriety, Risk, Ill

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• My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

  Sean Astin

  Terrible, Knows, Diets

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• Ben & Jerry's is an indulgent dessert that should be eaten in moderation. You should not be replacing more than one meal a day with ice cream. We do not consider a pint or a tub of ice cream to be a single serving.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Ice Cream, Meals, Tubs

  Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of his appetites and assumptions) and more resources to deal with it if it occurs (being better able to put it in perspective and maintain his own evenness of self-mastery). Tragedy as a dramatic form is meant to foster the ethos of sophrosyne or moderation, "nothing to excess"; it nurtures a sense of distance from the dominant illusions and delusions that may infect even aristoi.

  Kenny Smith

  Distance, Philosophy, Character

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• I'm really into moderation. Too much of anything will harm you in the end. Too much sugar. Too much pasta. I'm into drugs as a teaching tool, which is why I only take hallucinogenics. I mean, it's not like I've never done cocaine, but, on the whole, if I can't see dancing elephants then I'm not interested.

  Tori Amos

  Teaching, Mean, Elephants

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• All extremes are dangerous.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dangerous, Extremes

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

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• For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

  Plato

  Character, Men, Evil

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sex, Queens, Numbers

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• Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

  Rose Macaulay

  Fashion, Mean, Humanity

  Rose Macaulay, Constance Babington Smith (2011). “Letters to a Friend”, p.245, Bloomsbury Publishing

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