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