Moderation Quotes

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It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.  - Aristotle


I soon found out you can't change the world.  The best you can do is to learn to live with it.  - Henry Miller


My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.  - Edmund Burke


No matter what happens... somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.  - Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"


From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.  - Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912


Enough is as good as a feast.  - English Proverb


We may outrun
By violent swiftness
And lose by over-running.
- William Shakespeare


The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.  - Don Marquis


The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.  - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab


He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.  - Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.  - Hindu Proverb


To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.  - William Wordsworth


Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.  - Epicurus


They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.  - William Shakespeare


To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.  - Confucius, Analects


You're always in either first or fifth, but you know there's a lot of great gears in between.  - Tony to Angela on Who's The Boss


We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right. - Nathaniel Hawthorne


All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.  - George Harrison


Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. - Jewish Proverb


A little work, a little play
To keep us going—and so, good-day!
A little warmth, a little light
Of love's bestowing—and so, goodnight!
A little fun, to match the sorrow
Of each day's growing—and so, good morrow!
- George du Maurier, "A Little Work"


Everything in moderation, including moderation. - Buddhist Wisdom


Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor? - Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)


Spontaneity is good. Routine is good. Conflicting goodness? No. Balance is life. - Terri Guillemets


Bliss is a constant state of mind, undisturbed by gain or loss. - Author Unknown


Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time.  At any given moment the floor may open up.  Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.  - Edward Gorey


We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed. - Michel de Montaigne