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Moderation Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that’s the some on’t.”

Charles Lamb

Tobacco, Moderation, Habit, Humor, Excess

2. “Brandy and water spoils two good things.”

Charles Lamb

Drink, Balance, Taste, Moderation, Wisdom

3. “Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.”

Charles Lamb

Gluttony, Moderation, Gratitude, Celebration, Reflection

4. “To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.”

Charles Lamb

Excess, Moderation, Pleasure, Overindulgence, Taste

5. “What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.”

Charles Lamb

Health, Dullness, Life, Moderation, Reflection

6. “Half as sober as a judge.”

Charles Lamb

Sober, Judge, Wisdom, Moderation, Judgment

7. “Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.”

Margaret Fuller

Expression, Growth, Balance, Life, Moderation

8. “In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.”

Jimmy Carter

Beliefs, Extremism, Moderation, Society, Faith

9. “Step not beyond the beam of the balance.”

Pythagoras

Balance, Restraint, Justice, Moderation, Order

10. “Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.”

Pythagoras

Restraint, Discipline, Control, Desire, Moderation

11. “Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.”

Pythagoras

Moderation, Balance, Wealth, Caution, Prudence

12. “The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.”

Democritus

Moderation, Excess, Pleasure, Consequence, Balance

13. “Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.”

Democritus

Moderation, Pleasure, Balance, Satisfaction, Restraint

14. “Men achieve cheerfulness by moderation in pleasure.”

Democritus

Cheerfulness, Moderation, Pleasure, Balance, Wisdom

15. “If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.”

Democritus

Contentment, Simplicity, Moderation, Wisdom, Peace

16. “Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.”

Democritus

Pleasure, Moderation, Pain, Consequence, Desire

17. “Accept nothing pleasant unless it is beneficial.”

Democritus

Pleasure, Wisdom, Moderation, Prudence, Discipline

18. “Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.”

Plutarch

Courage, Balance, Cowardice, Rashness, Moderation

19. “Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.”

Plutarch

Nature, Diet, Spirituality, Moderation, Ethics

20. “There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.”

Plutarch

Health, Moderation, Strength, Harm, Temperance

21. “Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.”

Anton Chekhov

Balance, Moderation, Excess, Wisdom, Self-control

22. “Too much beauty got Sita kidnapped, too much ego got Ravana killed and too much charity got Raja Bali in deep trouble. So too much of anything is bad. One should refrain from ‘too much’.”

Chanakya

Moderation, Ego, Caution, Balance, Wisdom

23. “Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.”

Herbert Hoover

Food, Health, Moderation, Wisdom, Sustainability

24. “If I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.”

Stendhal

Pleasure, Caution, Moderation, Self-Control, Experience

25. “Philosophy calls for plain living, but not for penance; and we may perfectly well be plain and neat at the same time. This is the mean of which I approve; our life should observe a happy medium between the ways of a sage and the ways of the world at large; all men should admire it, but they should understand it also.”

Seneca

Philosophy, Simplicity, Balance, Wisdom, Moderation