Quotes About Balance

Every paid worker, no matter where on the economic scale, expects a day off a week and a vacation a year. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Good health, yes, is partly genes Really though it's more about greens And other types of healthful things

Golfer's diet: live on greens as much as possible.

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones, walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle.

Vegetarian contains both the words 'give' and 'get.'

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

The excess of virtue is a vice.

What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.

A good garden may have some weeds.

A man's Nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.

Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can change, and wine to accept the things that I can't.

A cup of wine is medicine, a gallon of wine is ruin.

Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best.

Man drinks wine, then wine drinks wine, then wine drinks man.

Every man is a damn fool at least ten minutes a day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself picking up the extra load.

Writing helps keep me sane — or at least a pen's length from insane.

There are living days and there are writing days. But you can never have the writing without the living. And if you've got writer's block you'd better go have yourself a day of living to fix it, rather than beating on an idling brain.

Making up his mind is a chore no less strenuous to the average Libran male than taming a wild buffalo...

You can't have it all, all at once... Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death.

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

All mothers are working mothers.