Quotes About Balance

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. [The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.]

There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is a man there doing half of it, that's a different world.

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.