#airs

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#gray hairs #hairs #hold #signs #speak

Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say in the running of their affairs, running of their government, and this is very legitimate. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#arab #because #clear #government #legitimate

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. ↗

— Terence

#better #constituted #human #human nature #judge

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#affairs #always #bad #britain #country

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#against #born #claim #connection #despite

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#depth #easier #far #feeling #forces

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. ↗

— Saint Basil

#affairs #comfort #derived #find #human

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#cellar #closet #down #first #i

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs. ↗

— Charlie Byrd

#carefully #financial #frugal #learn #manage

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it. ↗

— Dawn French

#else #home #i #keep #my own