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Affairs Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
- 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…
- Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
- CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
- CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of…
- RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
- PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and…
- Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
- EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
- Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting
- It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn…
- Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is…
- NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor,…
- The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.
More Affairs 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