Robert W. Service Quotes

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

Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.

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.

There is moderation even in excess.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Moderation is the secret of survival.

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

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

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.

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

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

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

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

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

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

I do everything in moderation.

I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.

We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.

I wouldn't deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing.