#fairs

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#affairs #especially #everything #inactivity #others

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. ↗

— Thucydides

#brilliant #charge #expect #frequently #men

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#citizens #community #democracy #free #free citizens

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. ↗

— Paul Klee

#art #begins #concern #itself #science

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#allow #apply #back #become #card

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#am #answer #any #association #beliefs

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 Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#did #genuine #i #know #raft

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#life #love #love-affairs #lovers #old-age