Affairs Quotes

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Lane Allen

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions.

Emily Brown

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Norman Lindsay

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Seneca

It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face.

Charlton

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Horatio Nelson

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

Chinese proverb

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Desiderius Erasmus

How much folly there is in human affairs

Persius

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

Mason Cooley

Our affairs are attached to the destiny decreed by God, even our best plans may lead us to destruction.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

The affairs of gold-laden Gyges do not interest me zealousy of the gods has never seized me nor anger at their deeds. But I have no love for great tyranny for its deeds are very far from my eyes.

Archilochus

A good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him.

Georges Bernanos

It shews the anxiety of the great men who influenced the conduct of affairs at that great event, to make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Edmund Burke