Quotes About Balance

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.

Our necessities never equal our wants

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.

The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

An empty bag cannot stand upright.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man happy wealthy and wise.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.