Quotes About Moderation

The hunter does not plunder his world – he takes from it only what he truly needs. In this way the hunter ensures that his coffer, whether it holds friends, food, happiness or power, is never empty.

A feverish display of over-zeal, At the first outset, is an obstacle To all success; water, however cold, Will penetrate the ground by slow degrees.

A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth.

Frugality should ever be practised, but not excessive parsimony.

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by… What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

The prevention of evil will always require more than desirable social arrangements: it will forever require personal self-control and the conscious limitation of appetites.

The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them…. If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it.

Always try to ensure that there is an even balance in your life between work, rest and play.

Though [Theophanu] was of the weak sex she possessed moderation, trustworthiness, and good manners. In this way she protected with male vigilance the royal power for her son, friendly with all those who were honest, but with terrifying superiority against rebels.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which set bounds to the passions

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which sets bounds to the passions

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Kant ate but once a day, and drank no beer. Of this liquor, (I mean the strong black beer,) he was, indeed, the most determined enemy. If ever a man died prematurely, Kant would say—'He has been drinking beer, I presume.

Contemplation and self-indulgence do not mix.

Cap and trade is not an easy one for refiners, so we tried to get some moderation in the bill, and we did, but not near as much I would like.

If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

Peace is neutral, and not very sexy.

On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.