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Quotes About Balance

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.
~ Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
~ Confucius
The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.
~ Confucius
The superior man limits his achievements.
~ Confucius
Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I am a man and you are a woman. I can't think of a better arrangement.
~ Groucho Marx
Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
~ Martin Luther
In today's world, both men and woman need motherhood, the nurturing motherly feeling, the feminine energy. By receiving this energy, it will make them independent and free.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
~ Paulo Coelho
A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.
~ Rafael Sabatini
It's important for me to make sure that the men see and recognize that that woman is their equal.
~ Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
~ Robert E. Howard
Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.
~ Jon Meacham
A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
~ Albert Camus
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
~ Albert Pike
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
~ Alfred de Musset
What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.
~ Amy Hempel
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
~ Andre Gide
Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.
~ Andrew Weil
As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.
~ Ann Coulter