(223 quotes found)
“The first watch of the night passes away in worthless affairs, and the second passes in deep sleep. In the third, they babble nonsense, and when the fourth watch comes, the day of death has arrived. The thought of the One who bestows body and soul never enters the mind.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one”
Joseph Campbell
“Golf is not a funeral, though both can be very sad affairs.”
Bernard Darwin
“Intel isn't the market. They're marking the futures down, but I think this is a minimal affair. Everybody already knew the tech sector is in trouble. This is nervous traders protecting themselves -- not the start of a new decline.”
Phil Roth
“What everybody was hoping would be a temporary situation may well be a protracted legal affair. That has provided the opportunity to this market, which was already nervous, to look at the worst case scenario: weeks of uncertainty.”
John Ing
“Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated”
Voltaire
“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does”
“A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full; so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows. . .”
“The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him”
Mark Twain
