Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
“It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Of all the gracious things upon this earth, It is fair words that have the greatest worth,
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!