Everything in moderation, including moderation.

- Julia Child

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

- Julia Child

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

- Henry David Thoreau

I like to go to Marshall Field's in Chicago just to see how many things there are in the world that I do not want.

- Mother Mary Medeleva

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

- Frederick Douglass

Conquer, but don't triumph.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes . . . and dead armadillos.

- Jim Hightower

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

- William Lloyd Garrison

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

- Margaret Thatcher

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin