Top Moderation Quotes

A couple of years ago my sister Judy and I were each given a box of truffles. The tiny print said two pieces contained 310 calories and there were six pieces in each box. We were sitting on the bus he...

There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom...

Moderation Definition

(n.) The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.

(n.) The state or quality of being mmoderate.

(n.) Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation.

(n.) The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outloo...

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.

Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of...

Moderation is based on the idea that things do not fit neatly together. Politics is likely to be a competition between legitimate opposing interests. Philosophy is likely to be a tension between compe...

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.