#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

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#affairs #beginning #careful #end #fail

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#could #few #friendships #love #survive

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. ↗

— Frances Bean Cobain

#biological #generally #gross #her #i

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#amusements #concerned #fail #forgetting #his

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. ↗

— Emily Carr

#all things #bored #eternal #eternal love #expected

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#current #i #interested #policy #politics

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#aversion #both #china #i #i think

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs. ↗

— Confucius

#before #example #go #laborious #people

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#churchill #cynical #day #decades #every