Quotes About Priorities

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

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

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

He was a man too busy to flush toilets.

Men are lead by trifles.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.