Quotes about Moderation

Labor not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

In dog beers, I've only had one.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

I am not a fitness freak.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.

Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!

I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.

Here, if any where, in considering the hidden mysteries of Scripture, we should speculate soberly and with great moderation, cautiously guarding against allowing either our mind or our tongue to go a step beyond the confines of God's word.