38 Moderation Quotes to share with friends and relatives

Its best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken. – Aristotle

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. – John Ciardi

My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation! – Robert Clive

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

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs. – Johann von Goethe

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. – Horace

There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth. – Vera Johnson

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

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes. – Klemens Von Metternich

Keep a mid course between two extremes. – Ovid

You will go most safely in the middle. – Ovid

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. – Blaise Pascal

Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm. – Jean Paul

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. – Saint Augustine of Hippo

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)

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)