Sons Quotes

A. bartlett giamatti, president of yale university - far better to think historically, to remember the...
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookne
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
J. deville - in communities where men build ships for their...
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
Georg christoph lichtenberg - first there is a time when we believe everything,...
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
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Dame Edith Sitwell
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Homer, The Odyssey
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
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
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9
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
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fulle
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
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warne
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurbe
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
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
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.
Bertrand Russell
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
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
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
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
Albert Camus, The Fall
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
Michel de Montaigne
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.
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
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.
Robert Frost
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
Blaise Pascal
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
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
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
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
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.
Anonymous