Quotes About Priorities

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

When it comes to getting dressed, men are a little bit more important than handbags but less important than shoes.

The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

people too busy leading their lives to worry about extending their life expectancy.

I hadn't known that,' I said. 'I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there.' 'There might as well be,' Arsibalt said, 'but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs.

The tragedy—and the entire point—of being a parent was the moment when the story stopped being about you.

I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." "There might as well be," Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

The last year had been an education in how little having money really mattered. A rich Vagabond was a Vagabond still, and 'twas common knowledge that King Charles, during the Interregnum, had lived without money in Holland.

hadn't known that," I said. "I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." "There might as well be," Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

When I think of all the things I've worried about and been afraid of in my life—and now it's plain that I've been scared of the wrong things.

It boiled down to Amistics. In the decades before Zero, the Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but astonishingly sophisticated when it came to networked communications and software.