Quotes about Moderation
Any form of over-indulgence creates within the body warning signs of destruction.
- Mother Angelica
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
- Cicero
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
- Confucius
The superior man limits his achievements.
- Confucius
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
- Martin Luther
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
- Pope John Paul II
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
- Euripides
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
- Mahatma Gandhi
World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
- Henry David Thoreau