Moderation Quotes

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

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

Moderation is the secret of survival.

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

You have to be cautious of eating continuously the same thing. Beef comes to mind right away, and there's nothing wrong with beef, but you've got to do whatever you're doing in moderation. So try to break it up a little bit. Eat some fish or some shellfish at least a couple of times a week.

I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.

We're about moderation.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

I eat as much as the next girl, but I work my butt of in the gym every morning! The key is moderation. I splurge on the weekend. A big bowl of pasta and a delicious slice of cake for dessert are my favorites.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.