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Affair Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
- Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.
- A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the few who direct…
- A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we…
- Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
- It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
- From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful…
- I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,…
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming…
- If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It…
- Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the…
- The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
- Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends
More Affair Quotes
- 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