Quotes About Priorities

Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.

Humanity actually seems to be split down the middle on the definition of luxury: those who want gilded leopard-shaped teapots and those who want to live in the white box their iPhone came in.

Nobody ever makes their plans as if they're going to die the next day.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

He would like, really, to take a long holiday. But he couldn't afford to do that. He could afford it financially, of course, but he couldn't afford to drop out. You were soon forgotten nowadays.

It's not a man's working hours that are important – it's his leisure hours.

For whom will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself, usually for the man she loves, always for her children.

If you care for money too much, it is only the money you see, everything else is in shadow.

She could be attractive when she wanted to be but life had taught her that efficiency and competence often paid better results and avoided painful complications.

So, if I lost all my money, you'd drop me tomorrow?' 'Yes, darling, I would. You can't say I'm not honest about it! I only like successful people. And you'll find that's true of nearly everybody - only most people won't admit it. They just say that really they "can't put up with Mary or Emily or Pamela any more! Her troubles have made her so bitter and peculiar, poor dear!

Toat? lumea se a?teapt? ca educa?ia s? fie un drept fundamental ?i nu pun mare pre? pe ea când o primesc!

A rich man and his money are not so easily parted. Me, I have seen a well-known millionaire turn out a tramful of people to seek for a dropped halfpenny.

Qué es importante y que no lo es? Nunca se puede decir. Hemos de fijarnos en los menores detalles.

There comes to everyone a turning point in their lives, M. Poirot. They stand at the crossroads and have to decide. My profession interests me enormously; it is a sorrow - a very great sorrow - to abandon it. But there are other claims. There is, M. Poirot, the happiness of a human being.

La gente feliz fracasa porque se encuentra en tan buenas relaciones consigo misma, que le tiene sin cuidado todo lo demás.

Mereka yang tidak pernah memikirkan uang membutuhkannya jauh lebih banyak

It is hard when you are twenty-four years of age, and your one ambition in life is to reduce your handicap at golf, to be forced to give time and attention to the problem of earning your living.

Even God would say"Finish the task you have undertaken". He would never recommend breaking her mother's heart, damaging her parents' lives. "Your mother and then your mother and then your mother," the Prophet had said, "and then your father." But what about her own life? What is to become of that?

Desperate times calls for more than simply desperate measures. It calls for putting one's values aside till the desperation subsides" --Mental Hell, Chapter 3

labor not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was

No puedo permitirme odiar a nadie. No tengo tanto tiempo