Quotes About Balance

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I'll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.