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Quotes About Balance

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
~ Thomas Browne
Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).
~ Ananda Coomaraswamy
Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
~ Patrick Ness
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.
~ Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE - DESIRE = GOD.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.
~ Smiley Blanton
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
~ Thomas Aquinas
A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.
~ Walter Lippmann
Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.
~ Yisroel Salanter
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
~ Christina Rossetti
If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.
~ Dalia Grybauskaite
Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
~ Fletcher Knebel
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
~ Aneurin Bevan
A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.
~ C. S. Lewis
There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.
~ Donald Miller
Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.
~ E. Cheraskin
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
~ George Eliot