Quotes About Priorities

I should rather, Philippa, marry where there is no love than marry and find love turn to jealousy.

But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose, said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain? You can usually tell, said Miss de Vine, by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

Think of it—all ours, to do as we like with, for as Harold Skimpole so rightly observes, £60 saved is £60 gained, and I'd reckoned on spending it all.

So many things in this life are a waste of time

I haven't time and I don't want the money. Why should I? I'm not a dean or an actress.

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

No matter what happens to society, I must maintain my supply of ice cream.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

What was the self-sacrifice? I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes. Why was that self-sacrifice? Because they were mine! said Ford, crossly. I think we have different value systems. Well mine's better.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day. And are you? No. That's where it all falls down, of course. Pity, said Arthur. It sounded like rather a good lifestyle otherwise.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.' 'And are you?' 'No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

but I'd far rather be happy than right any day." "And are you?" "No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.' 'And are you?' 'No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

there's more to life than love. You can't survive on love. You can't have the important things in life just because of love.

As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.