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Moderation Quotes
"Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet."
67
"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."
53
"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
37
"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."
28
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
24
"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."
17
"One today is worth two tomorrows."
15
"As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft."
15
"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately."
14
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
13
"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
13
"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
13
"I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds."
11
"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."
10
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
9
"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
9
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
9
"Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely."
9
"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
8
"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
8
"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."
7
"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
7
"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
7
"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."
6
"A good reputation is more valuable than money."
6
"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
6
"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."
6
"This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you."
6
"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."
6
"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
6
"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."
5
"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."
5
"We never repent of having eaten too little."
5
"This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess."
5
"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues."
5
"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."
4
"The best things carried to excess are wrong."
4
"I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time."
4
"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
4
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
4
"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."
4
"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."
4
"Discipline is needed in our temperance."
4
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
3
"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
3
"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess."
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