Trunk Balance

Famous quotes containing the words trunk and/or balance:

    “We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one’s balance and keep afloat.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)