Sons Quotes
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.George Eliot
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.Simone de Beauvoi
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
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
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
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.Henry David Thoreau
All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him.Prophet Mohammad, Bukhari & Muslim
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.Aristotle, Rhetoric
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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
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 are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.Jacques Maritain
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.Robert Cecil
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
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.Aristotle, Politics
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
Strong reasons make strong actions.William Shakespeare
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.Andr Maurois
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.Arthur Schopenhaue
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.H. L. Mencken
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.Friedrich Nietzsche
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.Robert Frost, (attributed)
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.Sir Richard Steele
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.John Pierpoint Morgan
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
