Quotes About Balance

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

A man must take the fat with the lean.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

Now, I'm mostly a beer man. When I drink hard liquor, it usually doesn't end the best, so I keep it chill with beer.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

It was sometimes difficult to reconcile a man's talents with his personality.

They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.

We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

A man's just gotta know his limits

According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.

The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.