Quotes About Balance

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?

Our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for.

keep your breath to cool your porridge

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

el esfuerzo debe ser proporcional a lo que se pretende.

There should be moderation in everything.

When I am in the country, I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town It is pretty much the same. They have each their advantages, and I can be equally happy in either.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment

It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey

Hay?rseverliÄŸine hayram?m, diye konuÅŸtu Mary, Ama yine de bütün duygusal dürtüler mant?kla yönlendirilmelidir. Åžahsen fikrimi sorarsan; insan?n harcad??? her emek daima kendisinden talep edilenle doÄŸru orant?l? olmal?d?r.

Hay?rseverliÄŸine hayran?m, diye konuÅŸtu Mary, Ama yine de bütün duygusal dürtüler mant?kla yönlendirilmelidir. Åžahsen fikrimi sorarsan; insan?n harcad??? her emek daima kendisinden talep edilenle doÄŸru orant?l? olmal?d?r.

Todo impulso del sentimiento debe estar dirigido por la razón, y a mi juicio, el esfuerzo debe ser proporcional a lo que se pretende - Mary

Mrs. Parker was as evidently a gentle, amiable, sweet-tempered woman, the properest wife in the world for a man of strong understanding but not of a capacity to supply the cooler reflection which her own husband sometimes needed; and so entirely waiting to be guided on every occasion that whether he was risking his fortune or spraining his ankle, she remained equally useless.

every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason.

I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance, Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly.

If someone insists their feet are always firmly on the ground, how else can you discover if their head is sometimes in the clouds?

Go and eat and drink a little more, and you will do very well.

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

It exactly answers my idea of a fine country, because it unites beauty with utility

Exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Perfection should not have come quite so soon.