Quotes About Balance

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

et puis on recommence encore le lendemain avec seulement la même règle que la veille et qui est d'éviter les grandes joies barbares de même que les gr-andes douleurs comme un crapaud contourne une pierre sur son chemin…

what really distinguishes us from apes is not the opposable thumb but the ability to hold in mind opposing ideas, a distinction we should probably try to preserve.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

A stele was erected as a souvenir. It was written: the mountain is no longer alone; the trees support it. (Une stèle fut érigée en souvenir. Y était inscrit : la montagne n'est plus seule; les arbres la soutiennent.)"

The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below. (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous.)

The most beautiful painting holds by a hard nail. (La plus belle peinture - Tient par un clou dur.)

The present is the equilibrium of the past and the future. (Le présent, c'est l'équilibre Du passé et du futur)

The river overflows, not the sun. (Déborde le fleuve, Pas le soleil)

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

A man must take the fat with the lean.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!