When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTags: education moderation teaching
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William BlakeTags: moderation
If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.
Mark TwainTags: moderation indiscretion
Here's to responsibility, twice a week.',
Stephenie MeyerTags: moderation
O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
PlatoTags: wisdom beauty philosophy moderation
Love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*
Tags: love moderation
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
themselves up when taken little by little.
Tags: moderation
There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom one of anything is not even an option.
Abigail ThomasTags: excess moderation
A couple of years ago my sister Judy and I were each given a box of truffles. The tiny print said two pieces contained 310 calories and there were six pieces in each box. We were sitting on the bus headed downtown, quietly doing our calculations: Judy was dividing by two and I was multiplying by three. When she realized what I was doing, a look came over her face that is hard to describe. 'I lost all hope for you' she says now.
Abigail ThomasTags: humor excess moderation
Everything is good in moderation. Even moderation.
Iveta ChernevaTags: humor moderation extremes
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