Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair. — Freddy Fender Copy Share Image
On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread. — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule… — Plato Copy Share Image
EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step,… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Our militant union with peoples which still have to carry on an armed struggle against the colonialists constitutes an important element of… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat.,… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was… — Helen Suzman Copy Share Image
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York…It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics,… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
Iraq is fragile and may fall back into a devastating setting. We're not making the kind of progress in Afghanistan that had… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that. — Bruce Bruce Copy Share Image
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
The awkward feeling that after that affair he just says Hey,how are you? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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![“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]” quote by Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c20/marcus-junius-brutus-the-young_affair_what-can-be-happier-than-for-a-man-consc_735053.jpg)
![“I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't…” quote by Kristan Higgins](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0bf/kristan-higgins-3756_affair_i-had-to-get-over-him-for-months-now-a-s_2377700.png)
