Quotes About Moderation

I'm not an extremist, you know.

Nothing outrages and disappoints an extremist more than compromise.

I avoid using Twitter and Facebook.

I'm not really part of the Internet world, my age a factor in that and a lack of interest in sharing with so many, so little, so much, so often.

I don't believe in fad diets.

I have never been on a fad diet. I have always worked out and I know my balance.

After a contest, I try to eat fairly healthy.

I'm fairly unemotional and tend not to get too excited when things go well and I tend not to get too depressed when they go badly.

Good players on good teams don't get too high, don't get too low. They're even-keeled, and they go about their business the right way.

Self-control is needed in the age of technology. Folks have to apply their sense in reacting to different things. I don't appreciate perverse and venom-spewing mindset.

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

I'm very happy, safe, and secure with television industry. I'm not over-ambitious.

Don't be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

I decided that there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business, as there is only one place for a temperate man to be in a saloon: behind the bar and not in front of it.

By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!