Quotes About Balance

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.

Nature can do more than physicians.

I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but somehow cheerfulness was always breaking in.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

How happy he who crowns in shades like these,A youth of labor with an age of ease.

The country blooms—a garden, and a grave.

want peace, prepare for war. Curiously, it seemed most

A tree grows into the air because it grows out of the air. The bulk of the tree is not made from the soil beneath- indeed, the soil is in large part made by the tree. Both soil and tree are made from the sun and wind and rain. The land is just a place to stand.

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time!

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

The only weights I lift are my dogs.