Sayings about Affairs
We decide our affairs, then we rest them with God. ~ Jabo Proverb
No one is wise in his own affairs. ~ Dutch Proverb
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. ~ Chinese Proverb
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~ Italian Proverb
Affairs of the home should not be discussed in the public square. ~ Kenyan Proverb
A great affair covers up a small matter. ~ Beninese Proverb
Quotations about Affairs
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. ~ Michael Garrett Marino
Golf is like a love affair. If you don’t take it seriously, it’s no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. ~ Arthur Daley
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. ~ Victor Hugo
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, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis. ~ Robert Collier
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. ~ Author Unknown
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth. ~ Stewart Udall
Mathematics – the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. ~ Isaac Barrow
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change. ~ Frank Popoff
Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. ~ Marilyn Monroe
If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine. ~ Author Unknown
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. ~ Rosalind Russell
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs. ~ Author Unknown
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.~ Ray Bradbury
Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth. ~ Ralph Parlette
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. ~ Henry Ford
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. ~ Sir Peter Medawar
When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. ~ Joseph Campbell
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. ~ Cardinal De Richelieu
When you’ve finished a piece of work you’ve had a kind of love affair with it. ~ Rose Tremain
Life’s an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. ~ Emily Carr
In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ~ Bertrand Russell
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. ~ Paul Klee
Good will comes to him who is generous and lends freely, who conducts his affairs with justice. ~ Bible
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation. ~ W. C. Fields
The truth is that I am enslaved … in one vast love affair with seventy children. ~ Sylvia Ashton Warner
Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love. ~ William Shakespeare
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ~ Plato
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. ~ James Allen
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. ~ Iris Murdoch
Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. ~ Thomas Moore
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs. ~ Confucius
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. ~ Walter Lippmann
Just how difficult it is to write a biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. ~ Rebecca West
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. ~ Lao-Tzu
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. ~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus
The most wise may be so in indifferent and ordinary matters, but they are seldom so in their most serious affairs. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot an ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ~ Honoré de Balzac
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus
Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. ~ Ambrose Bierce
There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy. ~ C. Fitzhugh
Adults are always so busy with the dull and dusty affairs of life which have nothing to do with grass, trees, and running streams. ~ Denys Watkins-Pitchford
Of course, fortune has its part in human affairs, but conduct is really much more important. ~ Jean Detourbey
Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. ~ Francesco Guicciardini
There is a wheel on the affairs of men; revolve, and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate. ~ Author Unknown
