Quotes About Balance

Equals make the best friends.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Do not attempt too much at once.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.

Please all, and you will please none.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

In trying to please all, he had pleased none.

Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana.

The stone in the water knows nothing of the hill which lies parched in the sun.

Where water is boss, the land must obey

If sweetness be excessive, it is no longer sweetness.

It is not work that kills, but worry

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

I know when a couple are really in love with each other. And by that I do not mean just sexually attracted. There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love, but cannot succeed by itself.

She had a great power of love and hate but no stability. That's what's so sad for anyone, to be born with no stability.

Things are simple as a rule

It's not a man's working hours that are important – it's his leisure hours.