Affairs Quotes

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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. — Michel de Montaigne
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. — Baruch Spinoza
The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say… — Abraham Lincoln
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and… — Joseph Story
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology. — H. L. Mencken
Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound… — Ambrose Bierce
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less… — Charles Dudley Warner
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control… — Epicurus
Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time,… — Robert Collier
All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair. — Al McGuire
Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You… — Vernon Howard
On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success… — Winston Churchill
Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't… — Sam Manekshaw
The best love affairs are those we never had. — Norman Lindsay
I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand… — Robertson Davies
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order. — Seneca the Younger
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power. — John Tillotson

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