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Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

For some people, a one-night stand doesn't make any difference in a seven-year love affair. I don't believe the degree of betrayal is always commensurate with the egregiousness of the behavior. They are two separate things.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in a state of crisis and fear the loss of a predictable future - they start to have conversations for the first time about love, sex, monogamy, and marriage. Most couples don't negotiate or don't even converse about any of these things until the crisis of the affair has actually forced them to. Why does it take infidelity to get us talking about the stuff that should be there from the start?

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.

Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.

Good content is the stuff of love affairs.

God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.

Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

Having contacts with Russian ambassador or with Russian representatives in this or that field does not mean interference in Americans' affairs - domestic affairs.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

I am asked often about Abraham Lincoln's mistakes and faults; he certainly made some mistakes. I have chapter in President Lincoln about the Powhatan affair that was a royal screw-up in the early days - right alongside the Sumter affair. Lincoln signed letters he should not signed, and the ship was sent to two places at one under two captains etc. Fortunately, no great harm. Lincoln took the blame and did not do anything like that again.