Affair Quotes - Page 9

He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

There is no justification for having an affair.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

My personal feelings on marriage? Samuel Johnson once said that second marriages - although I could probably say this about any marriage - are about the triumph of hope over experience. I think that's true. I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.

He was having an illicit affair... with his own mate.

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.