Quotes About Balance

Bread now, or cake later

Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the nation's golf courses.

Eat little, sleep sound.

And how close is a nervous breakdown to going over the edge? You never realize what a tightrope we all walk until you almost slip into the chasm.

If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

Words spoken, you are a slave to; those not said, you are the master of.

God made time, but man made haste.

Every disease is a physician.

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.

A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.

Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.

No time for your health today, will result in no health for your time tomorrow.

True strength lies in gentleness.

God is good, but never dance in a small boat.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Do not grab pawns at the expense of development or position.

How difficult it is to be simple.

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]