Moderation Quotes

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

We're about moderation.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef for dinner, it's probably going to be a 3-4 ounce portion with heaps and heaps of vegetables.

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

On my show I share all these yummy, fattening recipes, but I tell people, in moderation, in moderation. You can have that little piece of pie.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.