Quotes About Priorities

Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.

Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.

Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.

Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.

What we love to do we find time to do.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his political life.

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

I would rather be right than President.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death.