Antonio Porchia Quotes

There is moderation even in excess.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

Too few is as many as too many.

All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.

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

Too much is the same as not enough.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.