Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old moderation quotes, moderation sayings, and moderation proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.John Milton
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The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.John Fisher
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Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.Ken Follett
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Everything is good in moderation. Even moderation.Iveta Cherneva
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Be moderate in everything, including moderation.Horace Porter
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There is moderation even in excess.Benjamin Disraeli
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Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.Samuel Johnson
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Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.Flann O'Brien
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.Henry Kissinger
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Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress.Epictetus
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.Joseph Hall
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Everything in moderation, like calories.Jimmy Smits
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Moderation is a tree with roots of contentment, and fruits of tranquility and peace.Khemetic Saying
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.Seneca
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Excess is the pest of pleasure and elf-restraint is not its courage, it is its spice.Michel de Montaigne
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom.Charles Colton
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.Pascal
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. All excess is bad— abstinence, as intemperance.Martin Tupper
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Neither let prosperity put out the eyes of circumspection, nor abundance cut off the hands of frugality. They that too much indulge in the superfluities of life shall live to lament the want of its necessities.Khemetic Saying
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There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found.Horace
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My view is that the golden rule in life is never to have too much of anything.Terence
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Be moderate in your love of your friend, lest one day he becomes your enemy. And be moderate in hating your enemy, lest one day he becomes your friend.Muhammad ibn Al-Hasan ibn Hamdun
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Pure reason avoids extremes and requires one to be wise in moderation.Jean Baptiste Moliere
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Avoid extremes, and shun the fault of such / Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.Alexander Pope
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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.Francois Marie Voltaire
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.Samuel Johnson
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Humanism and the spirit of reasonableness are associated with the sense of humor and the sense of proportion and rule out fanaticism of all sorts.Lin Yutang
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Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.Eric Hoffer
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Excess on occasion is exhilerating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.Maugham
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I know many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason.Edmund Burke