Sons Quotes

John newton - when i was young, i was sure of many things now...
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Martha beck, o magazine, february 2003 - every instance of heartbreak can teach us...
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]
Sidney j. harris - a cynic is not merely one who reads bitter...
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Homer, The Odyssey
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Aldous Huxley
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andr Maurois
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
Albert Camus, The Fall
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
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
The Talmud
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
Croesus of Lydia
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Arthur Baldwin
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.
Elbert Hubbard
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Dame Edith Sitwell
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.
J. Deville
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
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
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Kelle
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
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare
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
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
Henry Mille
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fulle
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
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
John Lancaster Spalding
The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons - In - Law.
Joan Kise
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