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Letter "M" » man of affairs
«No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.»
Author: Margaret Turnbull
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
affair, entirely, Father, His father, his mother, man of affairs, responsible, responsible for
«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.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
affairs, afloat, bound, clouds, current, flood, flood tide, folded, folding, fold up, man of affairs, miseries, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, shallows, The Clouds, The Current, The Flood, tide, voyage
«There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
affair, joke, man of affairs, mixed, occasions, practical, practical joke, queer, queerer, queerest, vast
«Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.»
«The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
affairs, convincing, Empire, governs, man of affairs, notice, probable, proofs, See of, sparrow, Sparrows, The Sparrow
«Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
affairs, as well, breath, draws, each month, except, manages, man of affairs, months, month by month, nine, Nine Months, No Man, The Affair, This month, Tree
«The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
affairs, apathy, man of affairs, price, Public affairs, ruled
«The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Evil,
Men
| Keywords:
affairs, indifference, man of affairs, pay for, penalties, penalty, Public affairs, ruled
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
affairs, current, flood, flooded, flooding, flood in, flood tide, fortune, leads, man of affairs, serves, The Current, The Flood, tide, ventures
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