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 | "GLUTTON, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by
committing dyspepsia." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a
little." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty
nor drunken." | |
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Aristotle
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| "Moderation in all things." | |
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Publius Terence (P. Terentius Afer)
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| "Moderation in temper is always a virtue; But moderation in principle
is always a vice." | |
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Thomas Paine
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| "Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an
alternative." | |
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Henry Alfred Kissinger
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| "Moderation is best in all things." | |
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Theognis
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| "Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it
genius has not even a nodding acquaintance." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of
all virtues." | |
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Bishop Joseph Hall
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| "Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of
all virtues." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things
tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of
good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to
burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion
obviously demanded that they should burn none at all." | |
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Count Maurice Maeterlinck
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| "The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm And
tranquil." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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