Moderate

Famous quotes containing the word moderate:

“Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“the moderate Aristotelian city
Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry
And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience,
And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

“I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)