Top 25 Moderation Quotes of 140

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

Coward, Moderation, Anything Worth Doing

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

Passion, Men, Moderation

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.168, Rowman & Littlefield

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Anne Sexton

Saint, Moderation, Poet

Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

Klemens von Metternich

Failing, Moderation, Circumstances

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Frances E. Willard

Abstinence, Moderation, Foul

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

Smoking, Cigar, Moderation

Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.9, Courier Corporation

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

Nick Offerman

Pounds, Moderation, Appetite

"Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview". Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.laweekly.com. November 22, 2011.

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Robert Mondavi

Wine, Ideas, Moderation

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

Democritus

Pain, Wind, Moderation

"Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Mark Twain

Causes, Moderation, Temperance

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.242, Courier Corporation

My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.

Lindsay Lohan

Moderation, Motto, My Motto

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

Helen Suzman

Moderation, Extremist, Moderates

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

Oscar Wilde

Moderation, All Things, Including

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Character, Moderation, Proof

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Manly Hall

Secret, Survival, Moderation

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

Harry Vardon

Golf, Essentials, Moderation

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

Democritus

Moderation, Pleasure, Increase

"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 163), 1948.