Sons Quotes

It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

I have a dream that one day... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

John le Carre

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

Dora Russell

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

Edgar Albert Guest

Now we are all sons of bitches.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, After viewing 1st full test of manhattan project at trinity, NM. Invention and Technology magazine, 2001

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Kelle

I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Marquis de Sade

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.

Aldous Huxley

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

H. L. Mencken

When I was young, I was sure of many things now there are only two things of which I am sure one is, that I am a miserable sinner and the other, that Christ is an all - Sufficient Saviour. He is well - Taught who learns these two lessons.

John Newton

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.

John Pierpoint Morgan

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

Albert Camus, The Fall

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

Bern Williams

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

Aeschylus

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Andr Maurois

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Robert Frost, (attributed)

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Walter Stegne

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strong reasons make strong actions.

William Shakespeare

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

Michel de Montaigne

All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurbe

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Ronald Reagan