Quotes About Moderation

It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.

Too much talk will include errors.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

Make haste slowly.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Perfection is out of the question.

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

He is a pragmatist. He is not right wing, nor left wing, nor any wing.

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

Dine on little, and sup on less.

Moderation in war is imbecility.

The driver knows how much the ox can carry, and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.

Candour and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

You must have discipline to have fun.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

A little of what you fancy does you good.