| "The best love affairs are those we never had." »Norman Lindsay |
| "Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished." »Confucius |
| "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." »J. R. R. Tolkien |
| "Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love." »George Santayana |
| "There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation." »W. C. Fields |
| "affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in." »Aesop |
| "It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs." »Albert Einstein |
| "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." »Bertrand Russell |
| "He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them." »Saint Basil |
| "Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." »Paul Valery |
| "Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others" »William Hazlitt |
| "It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs." »Stanislaw Ulam |
| "People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure." »Lao Tzu |
| "Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs." »Rebecca West |
| "Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs." »Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko |
| "Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." »Christopher Morley |
| "There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." »William Shakespeare |
| "In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart." »Henry Clay |
| "I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about." »Henry Ford |
| "It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do ... Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either." »Golda Meir |
| "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." »Plato |
| "Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity." »Socrates |
| "This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." »James Reston |
| "In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are." »Nicholas Chamfort |
| "Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say." »Lord Melbourne |
| "Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life." »Arnold Bennett |
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