Quotes about Moderation

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

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.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

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.

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.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

By the mean of the thing I denote a point equally distant from either extreme, which is one and the same for everybody; by the mean relative to us, that amount which is neither too much nor too little, and this is not one and the same for everybody.