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Moderate profits fill the purse.
-Italian Proverb
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Let not turn fun to mischief.
-Proverb
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It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.
-Aristotle
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It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.
-Aristotle
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There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
-John Ciardi
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!
-Robert Clive
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
-William Lloyd Garrison
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
-Johann von Goethe
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
-Horace
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There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
-Vera Johnson
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
-Henry Kissinger
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Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
-Klemens Von Metternich
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Keep a mid course between two extremes.
-Ovid
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You will go most safely in the middle.
-Ovid
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
-Thomas Paine
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
-Blaise Pascal
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Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
-Jean Paul
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Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Books about Moderation
