James Toback Quotes

Moderation shifts when extremes do.

There is moderation in everything.

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

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

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

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

There is moderation even in excess.

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

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

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

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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

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

I believe that everything in moderation is best.

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

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

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

Most virtue lies between two vices.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.