Quotes About Balance

The best of all medicines are resting and fasting.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

I balanc'd some time between principle and inclination, till I recollected that, when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; then thought I, "If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you." So I din'd upon cod very heartily,

There was a difference, he said, between individuals years of maturity were not always accompanied with discretion, neither was youth in every instance devoid of it.

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,

nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

The best doctor gives least Medicine.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

134. Give no Advantage in Argument, nor lose any that is offered. This is a Benefit which arises from Temper.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

where there is more Sail than Ballast.

Work as if you were to live 100 years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow.

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise, Poor Richard says.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

You will be much more in control, if you realize how much you are not in control.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.