Quotes About Balance

If you care for money too much, it is only the money you see, everything else is in shadow.

She could be attractive when she wanted to be but life had taught her that efficiency and competence often paid better results and avoided painful complications.

And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?

there is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!

It is well at any price to have peace in the home.

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

Take what you want, says God, but pay for it

Many children, most children, I should say, suffer from over-attention on the part of their parents. There is too much love, too much watching over the child.

A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

When everybody about you is in a continual state of agitation, it develops in you a desire to go to the opposite extreme.

Imagination is a good servant and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Do a thing well then leave it alone .

Sesuatu yang baik tak pernah terlalu banyak, ketahuilah itu.

La gente feliz fracasa porque se encuentra en tan buenas relaciones consigo misma, que le tiene sin cuidado todo lo demás.

I've got a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise. A beastly thing, compromise, but it steals upon you as you near middle age.

There's always a way out," said Anthony gloomily. "I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

I make a good income and I only kill a reasonable number of my patients. How's that?

One must take the downs with the ups, my friend.

Her qualities were all excellent qualities, but sometimes Edward wished that she had more faults and less virtues. It was her virtues that drove him to desperate deeds.

Nobody understands the art of living nowadays,' said Captain Wyatt. 'Catching trains, making appointments, fixing times for everything—all nonsense. Get up with the sun, I say, have your meals when you feel like it, and never tie yourself to a time or a date. I could teach people how to live if they would listen to me.

Chi è molto buono con gli altri sa anche essere molto crudele.