Quotes About Balance

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.

Testosterone should be a controlled substance.

Women tend to take care of men a lot, but I like a guy who balances that out and takes care of me, too.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?

Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.

I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.

When people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer's always the same, to me, they're not mutually exclusive.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.