Quotes About Priorities

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Musick and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

I do find myself to become more and more thoughtful about getting of money than ever heretofore.

Az igazat megvallva egy kicsit nagyon is hajhászom az örömöket, tudva, hogy most vagyok életemnek abban az idejében, mely erre leginkább való; és mert látom, hogy a legtöbb ember, aki a világban sokra viszi, a szerzés idején megfeledkezik az élvezetekr?l, arra az id?re halasztva azokat, amikor vagyona már elegend?, hanem akkor már kés?, semmi örömét nem lelheti bennük.

He realized all at once that ambition and love might not make good bedfellows, that a choice between them might be necessary.

You know what they say: It's better to have dyspareuned than never to have pareuned at all.

After that experience, I decided that the things that were more important to do were the things I was actually not focused on, and I wasn't focused on them because I was pretty much afraid of failing," he says. [quoted from Mark Roth]

Le sobraba la plata para ser un vago y no le alcanzaba para ser respetable.

Para los mariateguistas, la prioridad académica era el adoctrinamiento.

I care for neither honey nor the honey bee

She confessed once in a television interview that she would rather "weep in a Rolls-Royce than be happy on a bicycle.

If you ever forgot that money did not buy what mattered in life, New York pizza would remind you.

Once you had rent and food covered, all the money in the world couldn't bring you what mattered. But it sure as hell could make life without it easier.

What a pity he let the substance go for the shadow.

I wonder when, and how, she decided that what she has with him trumped the thrill of being with someone new.

She was too busy to freak out, but that was the only thing keeping her from freaking out.

I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

Mrs Beaumont shrugged. 'Dougie travelled light in life,' she said. 'He knew it was people who were important.