Quotes about Moderation

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.

It is much better to take a little every day than some days to abstain wholly and on others to surfeit oneself.

The place to start controlling the cravings of our physical appetites is to reduce our exposure to temptation.

You oughtn't to ever do anything too long.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

What I glory in is the civilized, middle way between stink and asepsis. Give me a little musk, a little intoxicating feminine exhalation, the bouquet of old wine and strawberries, a lavender bag under every pillow and potpourri in the corners of the drawing-room. Readable books, amusing conversation, civilized women, graceful art and dry vintage, music, with a quiet life and reasonable comfort?—that's all I ask for.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.