“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.”
William Lloyd Garrison
“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.”
“A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success”
Otto von Bismarck
“Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.”
William Lyon Phelps
“In success be moderate”
Benjamin Franklin
“Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance”
Mark Twain
