Quotes About Balance

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

Harmony in discord.

There is measure in all things.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Nor does Apollo always stretch the bow.

The half of my own soul.

He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man?s door, Embittering all his state.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Just as the body takes time to recover from an infection that has afflicted it, so the soul needs times of silence and solitude for its recovery from the insane pace of modern life.