Quotes about Moderation
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.
— Susanna Wesley
More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.
— Mark Twain
It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. I'd rather choose the golden mean (which is not so golden), keep my thoughts to myself, and try for once to be just as disdainful to them as they are to me. Oh, if only I could!
— Anne Frank
Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.
— Paulo Coelho
Eating three times a day even if you're not hungry.
— Paulo Coelho
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.
— Samuel Johnson
Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
— Margaret Fuller
It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.
— Martin Luther
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
— Alexander Hamilton
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
— Ambrose of Milan
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
— St. Augustine
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
— Saint Jerome