Quotes About Balance

Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.

Prosperity is not just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Give and take makes good friends.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but not in visiting them too often.

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.

A hedge between keeps friendships green.

Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all.

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.

I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it.

Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

The way to do is to be.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.