#affair

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#advisable #affairs #business #conduct #economist

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. ↗

— Sophocles

#become #cure #diseased #evils #man

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#affair #anywhere #go #great #i

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#anywhere #go #great #i #move

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified. ↗

— John Sununu

#affair #also #burden #business #businesses

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street. ↗

— Jessica Tandy

#always #dead #dinner #either #having

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#i #like #meddle #private

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#affairs #awareness #everyday #important #intellectual

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#affairs #had #i #know #look

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#aid #always #american #american people #being