Quotes about Moderation
Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
- 1 Timothy 5:23
But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.
- 1 Timothy 6:8
She believes that going too far is wrong. Yet she's not trying to prove her point; she's just living it out.
- Travis Thrasher
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Let your desires be ruled by reason.
- Cicero
If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...
- Hilaire Belloc
If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
- Charles Spurgeon
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
- Confucius
Assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate thy temper.
- Livy
Advise the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish - that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates
- Lao Tzu