115 Quotes About Moderation

Ah. That is the price of love, I'm afraid—the pain one suffers from its loss. I'm not convinced it's worth it. Perhaps if one must love, one should do so in moderation.""Moderation in love," she mused aloud. "It's not something that would inspire a poet, is it?""A poet's view of the world would make for an uncomfortable life, wouldn't it? Everyone at the mercy of his or her passions, all of us tearing our hair out for the sake of love...

Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes. It is not hard to go the extreme way, but what is really difficult is neither to fast nor to feast, but to be moderate in everything we do.

He had never found that more than five whiskeys and soda were beneficial to law-practice.

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.

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.

If only I’d remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep.

A shallow reading of a problem begets outrage; a detailed approach to a problem encourages moderation.

Being too careful can be more destructive than being utterly careless.