Quotes About Priorities

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

There are many things in life worth getting temporarily tired for, but there is nothing in life worth getting permanently tired for.

Kissing don't last; cookery do!

Confronted with the twin disasters of climate change and an impending oil peak, it is hard to see how anyone could justify the assertion that the need to drive a car which can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles an hour in 4.5 seconds (the Audi S4 for example) overrides the Ethiopians' need to avoid recurrent famines, or the whole world's need to avoid the economic catastrophe we'll suffer if petroleum peaks too soon.

They used to advise young men to avoid gambling, drink, and women. And they were probably right in their time. But the single most important thing in the world today is not to read The New Yorker.

The more people you love, the weaker you are. . . . Love no one but your children.

Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels.

There were other things to tend to first. There were other debts to pay.

Will you not weep?" "I do not have the time for tears.

Kings are supposed to put the realm before their sisters.

I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.

Davos said. I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.

Tormund Thunderfist had better things to do than learn to make papers talk at him.

You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night,

Los príncipes nunca llegan tarde. Si otros están antes que ellos, es porque han llegado demasiado pronto.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Neatness was not one of the things he aimed at in life.

I ain't never saw a hearse with a luggage rack." (Quote by George Strait, country singer, and appearing at the end of Bob Mitchell's memoir, Time for a Heart-to-Heart: Reflections on Life in the Face of Death.

If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.

Better to be happy than wise.