#affair

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#afloat #bound #current #flood #fortune

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conducted #entirely #love #love affair #perfect

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto. ↗

— Tony Snow

#affairs #give #know #many #much

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#affairs #heart #human #human affairs #i

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

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

— Karl Kraus

#i #like #meddle #private

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#best #born #connected #consider #errors

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#affairs #been #court #crowns #designs

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 think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like. ↗

— John Cusack

#affair #chemistry #consummate #get #good