Sons Quotes
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.Home
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.Benjamin Disraeli
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.George Santayana
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
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
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.Neal A. Maxwell
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.May Sarton
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.Willis Whitney
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.Thomas Carlyle
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - Indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.Richard Dawkins
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.Henry Mille
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.Bern Williams
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.J. W. Alexande
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...Chief Seattle
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
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
No two persons ever read the same book.Edmund Wilson
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.Ronald Reagan
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
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.Walt Whitman
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!Friedrich Nietzsche
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 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
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.Bertrand Russell
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
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
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
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
