Quotes About Moderation

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

The middle course is the best.

Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

No sane man will dance.

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

But sometimes it is necessary to do that which is too much.

Start slowly, then taper off.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.