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Quotes About Balance

A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.
~ Donald Horne
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
~ Doris Lessing
Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
~ E. F. Schumacher
Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.
~ Edmund Burke
At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!
~ Edward Rowland Sill
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
~ Elie Wiesel
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.
~ Eric Pianka
Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
~ Frances Wright
As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
~ Francis Beaumont
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
~ George D. Prentice
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
~ George Fordyce
Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.
~ George Herbert
Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'
~ Gloria Steinem
Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.
~ Gwen Cooper
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
~ Harold MacMillan
Man is more than half of nature's treasure.
~ Hartley Coleridge
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
~ Henry A. Wallace
Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.
~ Henry Beston
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
~ Henry David Thoreau