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In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation. — Doutzen Kroes

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto. — Barbara Bretton

There is moderation even in excess. — Benjamin Disraeli

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful. — Samuel Johnson

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

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. — Blaise Pascal

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself. — Andre Gide

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance. — Kenneth H. Cooper

It is quite normal to see good intentions, when not carried out with moderation, urging men to actions which are truly vicious. — Michel De Montaigne

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that. — Alexander Pope

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. — Jean Paul

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
themselves up when taken little by little. — Plutarch

I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast ... but it's in moderation now. — Shane Warne

Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation. — Matt Cutts

The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity. — Jean-Baptiste Say

The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit. — Doug Stanhope

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes. — William S. Burroughs

Moderation is an attempt to live within one's emotional means. — Marty Rubin

Moderation in all things, especially moderation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. — Mark Twain

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm. — Jean Paul

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards. — Seal

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation. — Rick Riordan

Phillip, who is congenitally incapable of moderation, — Jonathan Tropper

Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

True faith, real and pure faith, cannot be practiced in moderation. — Steve Arterburn

Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts. — Ken Follett

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time. — Laozi

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. — Tallulah Bankhead

Moderation is like a foreign language. You have to learn that shit when you're young. — Joey Comeau

Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil. — Plutarch

There should be moderation in everything. — Jane Austen

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous. — Jonathan V. Last

I can't do anything in moderation. — Ozzy Osbourne

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Christian faith is not (not always? not usually?) a call to caution and moderation. — William C. Placher

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I've learned from my French husband and the way they eat, it's all about moderation. And that's really sustainable. — Kim Raver

Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse. — John Milton

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. — Epicurus

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation. — Margot Robbie

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation. — Baron De Montesquieu

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation. — E.L. Doctorow

The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family. — Lori Copeland

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme. — Paul Gauguin

Indeed, moderation is my middle name (though I do not often use it in signing legal documents) — W.C. Fields

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. — Alexis De Tocqueville

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. — Laurence Sterne

if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone. — Pearl S. Buck

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation. — Benjamin Franklin

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure. — Democritus

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. — Carnie Wilson

When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation. — Laozi

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. — Joseph Hall

For regulating the human (in our constitution) and rendering the (proper) service to the heavenly, there is nothing like moderation. — Lao-Tzu

By moderation one can be generous. — Laozi

Moderation leads to Mediocrity, Intensity leads to Excellence. — Suleman Abdullah

Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence. — Gian Kumar

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech. — Sathya Sai Baba

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. — Edmund Burke

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. — Benjamin Disraeli

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. — Robert A. Heinlein

Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say? — Kate Morton

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. — Roberto Benigni

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation. — Compay Segundo

I enjoy it once in a while. There is nothing wrong with that. Everything in moderation. I wouldn't call myself a pot-head. — Jennifer Aniston

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain. — Jean De La Fontaine

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad. — Hippocrates

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation. — Sean Astin

The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety. — Melissa Lane

Moderation kills. — Joel Fuhrman

We're about moderation. — Jenny Craig

Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it. — Mason Cooley

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion — Ellen Glasgow

Moderation is the key of lasting enjoyment. — Hosea Ballou

Nothing wrong with whips and needles, in moderation. — Terry Pratchett

The difference between moderation and discipline is moderation is practiced for others. — Tony G

Moderation in all things — Aristotle.

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry — Christopher Paolini

I want, once and for all,
not to know many things.
Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge
as in other things. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess. — Oscar Wilde

Moderation is necessary even in our desire for knowledge so as not to know things badly. — Baltasar Gracian

Here's to responsibility, twice a week.', — Stephenie Meyer

Commitment is never an act of moderation! — Kenneth G. Mills

I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance. — Halle Berry

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion. — Mark Twain

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. — Charles Gounod

I love collections of things, but always in moderation. — Sandy Gallin

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. — Tacitus

The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them. — David C. Day

Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know? — Maya Angelou

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation. — Seneca The Younger

A life lived in equal excess is one of moderation. — Charles Martin Hall

Moderation is not just finding the midpoint between two opposing poles and opportunistically planting yourself there. — David Brooks

Success in moderation was no doubt better for the character than failure, but too much of it and he would lose his cutting edge. — P.D. James