There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration--and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in Spring than in any other season. In the Spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours.
I think that saving a little child
And bringing him to his own,
Is a derned sight better business
Than loafing around the throne.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
The windy lights of Autumn flare;
I watch the moonlit sails go by;
I marvel how men toil and fare,
The weary business that they play!
Their voyaging is vanity,
And fairy gold is all their gain,
And all the winds of winter cry,
"My Love returns no more again."
I have need of the sky,
I have business with the grass;
I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling
Lone and high,
And the slow clouds go by.
I will get me away to the waters that glass
The clouds as they pass.
I will get me away to the woods.
How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!
He said that in his whole life he most repented of three things: one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land; the third, that he had remained one whole day without doing any business of moment.
What is the first business of one who studies philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.
He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.
Let every man mind his own business.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
A man's sexuality is his own business
Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure.
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not
The business of life is to go forward.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?