Quotes About Balance

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

Musick and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

Az igazat megvallva egy kicsit nagyon is hajhászom az örömöket, tudva, hogy most vagyok életemnek abban az idejében, mely erre leginkább való; és mert látom, hogy a legtöbb ember, aki a világban sokra viszi, a szerzés idején megfeledkezik az élvezetekr?l, arra az id?re halasztva azokat, amikor vagyona már elegend?, hanem akkor már kés?, semmi örömét nem lelheti bennük.

To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Just watch out for parasites.

She cut through worlds, and joined them—that's the important part—so that both became bigger.

If you are angle, I am complement. If you are circle, I am circumscribed.

I recited in Hebrew, "'Truth and peace form the foundation of the world …

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

How soon will some few years pass away, and then when the day is ended, and this life's lease expired, what have men of the world's glory, but dreams and thoughts? O happy soul for evermore, who can rightly compare this life with that long-lasting life to come, and can balance the weighty glory of the one with the light golden vanity of the other.