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Affair Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life…
- Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your…
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count…
- I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. — Irving Babbitt
- Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. — Honore de Balzac
- I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine,… — Roger Bannister
- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs… — Saint Basil
- Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be… — Arnold Bennett
- I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
- Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. — Ambrose Bierce
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce
- Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,… — Aeschylus