Quotes About Balance

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.

Talking is like playing on the harp, there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.

My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Ladies and gentlemen, you can't please everyone. Take my girlfriend - I think she's the most remarkable woman in the world. . . . That's me . . . But to my wife . . .

Let's face it, some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.