Quotes About Moderation

Yes, I'm grateful for technology. But I'm also happy for the off switch.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't have to tell it. I often will go through a manuscript crossing stuff out, and say, 'This is just too much,' you know?

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

Aristotle urged people to seek "the golden mean" between extremes, "moderation in all things" (which we interpret as including moderation in the pursuit of moderation). But why should this golden mean in general be desirable? Clyde Coombs and George Avrunin (1977) have enunciated a very simple principle that implies moderation: "Good things satiate and bad things escalate.

entre plusieurs opinions également reçues, je ne choisissais que les plus modérées, tant à cause que ce sont toujours les plus commodes pour la pratique, et vraisemblablement les meilleures, tous excès ayant coutume d'être mauvais, comme aussi afin de me détourner moins du vrai chemin, en cas que je faillisse, que si, ayant choisi l'un des extrêmes, c'eût été l'autre qu'il fallu suivre. (3e partie, para 2)

Loyalty is a very fine thing, but it shouldn't be allowed to get the bit between its teeth. I

Sai benissimo in cosa consista la vita, è fatta di qualità umane, tra le quali c'è un controllo dignitoso e intelligente degli appetiti che condividiamo con i cani. Un uomo non divora una carcassa o ulula su una collina dall'alba al tramonto; mangia cibo ben cucinato, se può permetterselo, e in quantità moderata, e adatta con saggezza i propri ardori alla convenienza.

Don't overdo it. There are numerous layers of honesty, and the deepest should not have a monopoly.

As my dear Baroness Lehzen used to say, 'Enough is as good as a feast.

Unspoiling is nothing more than the absence of spoiling.

Moderation was the effect of congenital optimism. Why push too hard at an open door?

Since I don't smoke or drink or swear unconvincingly, symmetry is my only vice.

In fact, I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good.

By nature you instinctively seek out the middle road, midway between dangerous passion and soul-destroying indifference.

there was something extravagantly excessive about the peony from the start, as if God had intended to suggest with this particular bloom that you could have too much of a good thing.

What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from being a judge, becomes our Father, pardoning our sins and accepting our obedience, though feeble and blemished? We are now brought to heaven under the covenant of grace by a way of love and mercy.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation, she said. Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

I won't go looking for trouble. I usually don't have too.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

We swallowed a few bites-not to much scince the food of the gods can burn you to ashes is you overindulge. I guess thats why you don't see many fat gods

If you don't know how to be happy with what you have, you will never be happy with more.

POINT TO PONDER: Blessed are the balanced.

They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.