Moderation Quotes

There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it.

In his personal habits, Mr. Lincoln is as simple as a child…his food is plain and nutritious. He never drinks intoxicating liquors of any sort… He is not addicted to tobacco.

I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

I never use my sword when the lash suffices, nor the lash when my tongue is enough.

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

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

I never had a drink in my life. I don't smoke or anything.

If one must drink, then let one drink thrice a month, for more is bad. If one gets drunk twice a month, it is better; if one gets drunk once a month, that is better still; and if one doesn't drink at all, that is the best of all.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.

I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

When you hear Allah's verses being rejected and mocked at by people, you must not sit with them till they start talking of other things.