Quotes About Balance

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

The solar system is off center and consequently man is too.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.