(317 quotes found)
“I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason”
Edmund Burke
“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound”
Proverb
“My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.”
Robert E. Lee
“Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.”
Oscar Wilde
“I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate”
Leon Jaworski
“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
“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.”
Clarence Day
“I don't get all wound up. I accept things as they come. I've always stressed moderation. I never got too high or too low. I think it helps being on an even keel. It was the same way with our players. I never wanted any excessive celebration if we outscored someone in a game or excessive dejection if we didn't. If you can stick to it, it helps.”
John Wooden
