Definition of affairs

"affairs" in the noun sense

1. matter, affair, thing

a vaguely specified concern

"get his affairs in order"

"several matters to attend to"

"it is none of your affair"

"things are going well"

2. affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour

a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

"news of current affairs"

"great affairs of state"

3. affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function

a vaguely specified social event

"the party was quite an affair"

"an occasion arranged to honor the president"

"a seemingly endless round of social functions"

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Quotations for affairs

To neglect one's affairs. [ Aul. Gell ]

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. [ Guicciardini ]

Fools are wise men in the affairs of women. [ Proverb ]

Like clocks, one wheel another on must drive,
Affairs by diligent labors only thrive. [ Chapman ]

There are a kind of men so loose of soul
That in their sleep will utter their affairs. [ William Shakespeare ]

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales.
And the good suffers while the bad prevails. [ Homer ]

There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries:
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. [ William Shakespeare ]

Do not take up the cudgels in another man's affairs. [ Proverb ]

He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs. [ Proverb ]

Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended. [ Proverb ]

No man at the head of affairs always wishes to be explicit. [ Macaulay ]

Fortune molds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [ Plautus ]

In love affairs, from innocence to the fault, there is but a kiss. [ A. Second ]

Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. [ Claudianus ]

In all affairs thou undertakest, a diligent preparation should be made. [ Cicero ]

In love affairs, a young shepherdess is a better partner than an old queen. [ De Finod ]

Eloquence flourished most in Rome when its affairs were in the worst condition. [ Montaigne ]

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power. [ Tillotson ]

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. [ Sir J. Stephen ]

Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next. [ Ovid ]

We need the friendship of a man in great trials; of a woman in the affairs of every-day life. [ A. L. Thomas ]

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs. [ Feltham ]

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk. [ Montesquieu ]

The test or measure of poetic genius is to read the poetry of affairs, to fuse the circumstance of today. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting for ever in one direction. [ Lowell ]

Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. [ Terence ]

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs. [ Emerson ]

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world. [ Goethe ]

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged of from glimpses got in the press of affairs or a few occasions. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. [ Cicero ]

It is, in a great measure, by raising up and endowing great minds that God secures the advance of human affairs, and the accomplishment of His own plans on earth. [ Albert Barnes ]

In misfortune, in error, and when the time appointed for certain affairs is about to elapse, a servant who hath his master's welfare at heart ought to speak unasked. [ Hitopadesa ]

Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of managing the affairs of a nation.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. [ Spurgeon ]

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind. [ Montaigne ]

When I beheld human affairs involved in such dense darkness, the guilty exulting in their prosperity, and pious men suffering wrong, what religion I had began to reel backward and fall. [ Claudius, Claudian ]

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs. [ Plutarch ]

In public affairs, we may usually infer the weakness of the cause by the excessive price that ministers have freely paid to those whose eloquence, or whose sophistry, has enabled them to make that weakness triumph. [ Colton ]

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Another underlying condition of contentment is not to take one's self, or even the affairs of life, too seriously. In looking back, every one can see how much unhappiness has been derived from an over-weening sense of one's importance. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself, it is not confined to partial views, or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself, its own integrity and worth. Hope awakens courage, while despondency is the last of all evils, it is the abandonment of good, the giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingness. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. [ Von Knebel (German), Translated by Mrs. Austin ]

affairs in Scrabble®

The word affairs is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters affairs:

AFFAIRS
(102 = 52 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

affairs

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word affairs

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In affairs

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AFFAIRS
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affairs in Words With Friends™

The word affairs is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters affairs:

AFFAIRS
(104 = 69 + 35)
AFFAIRS
(104 = 69 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

affairs

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word affairs

AFFAIRS
(104 = 69 + 35)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In affairs

AFFAIRS
(104 = 69 + 35)
AFFAIRS
(104 = 69 + 35)
AFFAIRS
(98 = 63 + 35)
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Words within the letters of affairs

2 letter words in affairs (7 words)

3 letter words in affairs (8 words)

4 letter words in affairs (7 words)

5 letter words in affairs (3 words)

6 letter words in affairs (3 words)

7 letter words in affairs (1 word)

affairs + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence affairs

Words that start with affairs (1 word)

Words with affairs in them (1 word)

Words that end with affairs (1 word)

Word Growth involving affairs

Shorter words in affairs

ai air fair affair

fa fair affair

ai air airs fairs

ai air fair fairs

fa fair fairs

Longer words containing affairs

(No longer words found)