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Quotes About Balance

Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.
~ Thomas Merton
God created women only to tame men.
~ Voltaire
A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.
~ Walter Lippmann
Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.
~ E. F. Schumacher
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
~ Francis Bacon
It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.
~ Franz Grillparzer
.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
~ George Santayana
A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.
~ Sylvester Stallone
There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.
~ Al Gore
There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.
~ Allen Tate
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
~ Bram Stoker
Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.
~ Shari Arison
A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
~ A. J. Liebling
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
~ Aaron Hill
In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.
~ Adam Sandler
You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Too much philosophy makes men mad.
~ Alan Judd
To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn