Balance Shafts

Famous quotes containing the words balance and/or shafts:

“Turning, I kissed her,
Easily for sheer joy tipping the balance of love.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)