Sons Quotes

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Aristotle, Rhetoric

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Anonymous

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Nigerian Prove

We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.

Golda Meir, to Anwar Saddat just before the peace talks.

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

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

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

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

Aeschylus

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

H. L. Mencken

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann

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

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Epictetus

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

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

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Blaise Pascal

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

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

Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.

Virgil

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Charles Dickens

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Rudyard Kipling

This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.

Honore de Balzac

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

H. L. Mencken

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

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Home

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

John Lancaster Spalding

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

Phyllis Chesle

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

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

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Law