Quotes About Balance

You can't ring the bells and, at the same time, walk in the procession.

Communication is and should be hell fire and sparks as well as sweetness and light.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking, he is not bigoted about it.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

One should seek for the salutary in the unpleasant: if it is there, it is after all nectar. One should seek for the deceitful in the pleasant: if it is there it is after all poison.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.

You cannot have your cake and eat it.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

You cannot have it both ways.

In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

He will give the devil his due.

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

We may draw good outof evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.