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Quotes About Balance

A perfect woman's but a softer man.
~ Alexander Pope
Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
~ Alexander Pope
Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love the stronger.
~ Alice Sebold
You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old.
~ Ally Walker
The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold
~ Andy Partridge
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
~ Anthony Trollope
Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
~ Arthur Eddington
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
~ Arthur Helps
A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
~ Arthur Keith
Be careful with the man jewelry. A little goes a long way.
~ Ashton Kutcher
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.
~ Augustus William Hare
Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.
~ Baha'u'llah
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.
~ Bathsua Makin
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
~ Ben Okri
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?
~ Benjamin Franklin
That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A good man's life is all of a piece.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
~ Bernard Avishai
Art is man determined to die sane.
~ Bernard DeVoto