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Quotes About Moderation

son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be
~ Og Mandino
Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation.
~ Og Mandino
Balance lives in the present.
~ Oprah Winfrey
YaÅŸland?kça hem camiye daha çok giden, hem de daha çok rak? içenler gibi olmam??t? Mevlut, az içiyordu
~ Orhan Pamuk
I hold that the real policy of England – apart from questions which involve her own particular interests, political or commercial – is to be the champion of justice and right; pursuing that course with moderation and prudence, not becoming the Quixote of the world, but giving the weight of her moral sanction and support wherever she thinks that justice is, and wherever she thinks that wrong has been done.20
~ Orlando Figes
We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics.
~ Orson Scott Card
must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.
~ Orson Scott Card
we must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.
~ Orson Scott Card
Everything in moderation, including moderation.
~ Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
~ Oscar Wilde
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
~ Oscar Wilde
he who will not economize will have to agonize
~ Confucius
Don't use cannon to kill musquito.
~ Confucius
Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.
~ Confucius
Do everything in moderation, even moderation.
~ Confucius
Very few go astray who comport themselves with restraint.
~ Confucius
15.15 The Master said, "To demand much from oneself personally, and not overmuch from others, will keep ill will at a distance.
~ Confucius
Quindi bisogna essere parsimoniosi. Ciò che si altera ricordando ha comunque una sua realtà, che la si conosca o meno.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He was, indeed, a governour, who had most exactly studied that book which, pretending to teach politicks, did only contain three leaves, and but one word in each of those leaves, which word was, MODERATION.
~ Cotton Mather
working out is such an important way of maintaining an even keel with regard to sobriety
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
~ D.H. Lawrence
I don't over-eat myself and I don't over-fuck myself.
~ D.H. Lawrence
It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.
~ Walker Percy