Quotes About Balance

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

Man cannot live by profit alone.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

When each man sets his own house in order, the whole world will be in order.

A man's tie should never be louder than his wife.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.