Moderation Quotes & Sayings
These moderation quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.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. - Thomas Paine
He knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility. - Thomas Babington 'Lord' Macauley
Glutton: A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
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
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. [The Summing Up] - W. Somerset Maugham
Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly. - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne