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Moderation Quotes

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
Buddha
"Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened."
Buddha
"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."
Plato
"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."
Jeff Bezos
"Limit your "always" and your "nevers"
Amy Poehler
"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful."
Mae West
"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live"
Socrates
"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long."
Laozi
"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."
Henry Kissinger
"Govern a nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it."
Laozi
"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
Hippocrates
"That no free government or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice moderation temperance frugality and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles"
George Mason
"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough"
William Blake
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety"
Aesop
"The more you have, the more you want"
Aesop
"A man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything"
Samuel Johnson
"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."
Anne Sexton
"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants "
Blaise Pascal
"It is not well to make great changes by severe means unless the end really justifies the measure"
Charles Spurgeon
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