Top 25 Moderation Quotes of 140 - Page 3

Samuel Johnson (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.].”, p.284

I'm a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation.

Robert Genn

Moderation, Believer, All Things

Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moderation, Moderation In All Things, All Things

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

Plato

People, Strange, Moderation

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Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

Ovid

Middle Path, Path, Moderation

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

Ovid

Two, Moderation, Extremes

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Oscar Wilde

Meals, Moderation, Enough

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

Mark Twain

Moderation, Discrete, Ifs

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

Karl Barth

Limits, Mysterious, Moderation

Karl Barth (2003). “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

Joseph Joubert

Angel, Moderation, Moved

Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.60

Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

John Milton

Bears, Moderation, States

John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Spring, Moderation

"When did moderate become a political dirty word?" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. April 1, 2012.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spring, True Happiness, Moderation

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

Jane Austen

Men, Moderation, Should

Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.414, Lulu Press, Inc