Quotes About Balance

A girl can stand just so much virtue.

Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

Simplicity is the first thing that is lost, and the last that is regained.

The danger of reading too much is that we shall have only the thoughts of others. The danger of reading too little or none at all, that we shall have none but our own.

The Liberal party is held together, not by forces within, but by a force above it. It consists, like the being that declined a chair, of two wings and a head.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

For time at last sets all things even And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Thus have I, as well as I could, gathered a posey of observations as they grew; and if some rue and wormwood be found among the sweeter herbs, their wholesomeness will make amends for their bitterness.

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

We have more coaches on the sidelines than we have players on the field.

Mom. Wife. Filmmaker. Dog lover. Happy. What else is there?

But, then, he's a doctor, and part of his job is to tell me to cut back on what I like to eat and drink.

Cuando la felicidad es demasiado grande, cuando a uno le curan de una herida demasiado mala, cuando todo es demasiado bonito, sólo hay un presentimiento que un hombre sensato pueda tener: algo está a punto de joderse.

gamos, meaning a marriage or conjoining of hunter and prey.

The Bradleys bookend their weekends by balancing these booze-filled habits with a running habit and a church habit on Sundays.

Don't you remember telling me that you're the brain and I'm the brawn? Naturally I expect you to do all the talking. And naturally I shall knockheads and toss people out of windows as required. Or did I misunderstand? Did you want me to think, too?

U mojem rje?niku, romantika nije pla?ljiv, sladunjav pojam«, rekla je ona. »Ona je poput ukusna jela za?injenog uzbuñenjem i humorom i zdravom mjerom cinizma.«

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

She was so busy doing Christmas, there wasn't time to experience Christmas.