Quotes About Balance

In total war it is quite impossible to draw any precise line between military and non-military problems.

ancient Greek saying, 'Love as if you shall hereafter hate, and hate as if you shall hereafter love.

There is great danger in trying to have things both ways.

There is always a strong case for doing nothing, especially for doing nothing yourself.

All comes out even at the end of the day, and all comes out still more even when all the days are over.' —VOLTAIRE

Blake: 'Think in the morning; act in the noon; eat in the evening; sleep in the night.

There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has its exceptions.

Este método de vida respondía exactamente a las máximas del poeta Blake: «Pensar por la mañana, actuar al mediodía, comer por la tarde y dormir por la noche».

did not overlook the broad principle that in war as in life everything is relative.

Dormía, corrientemente, una hora más por la mañana; me llamaban a las ocho en vez de las siete, y, si era posible, echaba una siesta de una hora después de almorzar. Esto me permitía trabajar continuamente hasta la una o las dos de la noche sin sentirme fatigado.

It is sometimes wise to allow natural processes to work, and crimes and follies to be paid in coin from their own mint.

The Frogs are getting all they can for nothing, and we are getting nothing for all we can.

if I must add one word of criticism to the Vikings [it is] that they were entirely lacking in any conception of neutrality.

Hay tanto de Todo que lo que hay de Nada queda muy bien cubierto.

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Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back.

La normalidad es un equilibrista sobre el abismo de la anormalidad. ¡Cuántas ocultas demencias contiene el orden cotidiano!

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Normalno?? jest linoskoczkiem nad otch?ani? nienormalno?ci.

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so. It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.

The great lesson we learn from life is when, and when not be, in the centre of things

Our arses should be signs of peace!

I am at two with nature.

You know what my philosophy of life is? That it's important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.