Quotes About Balance

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

To do a great right, do a little wrong.

I do perceive here a divided duty.

Our foster-nurse of nature is repose.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure,Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure.

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other,And I will look on both indifferently.

What he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

This sweaty hasteDoth make the night joint-laborer with the day.

How sour sweet music isWhen time is broke and no proportion kept!So is it in the music of men's lives.

They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

Do not give dallianceToo much the rein.

This even-handed justice.

Happy in that we are not over happy.

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;Between two blades, which bears the better temper;Between two horses, which doth bear him best;Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;I have perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment;But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.

William Shakespeare

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

Nature is perfect.

So I had to learn that a lopsided relationship doesn't work. The exercise of power is inevitably self-defeating. What happens is that the person without power loses their self-respect, their whole entity becomes less, and the reasons their partner fell in love with them disappear.

But most people are too busy working on survival to find the opportunity to create.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.