Quotes About Balance

A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

Food is man's only truly reliable medicine and foods do cure, just the same as wrong foods and drinks may kill us.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.