Joseph Pilates Quotes

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

There is moderation even in excess.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

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

We're about moderation.

Everything in moderation.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.