Quotes About Balance

The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Do not disturb the sleeping dog.

To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

I have never been drunk, but I've often been overserved.

You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor, goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch, is no ethical leader for me.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded; at the other, the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

1. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 3. Go very lightly on the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.

The physically fit can enjoy their vices.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.