Quotes About Moderation

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

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.]

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.