Sons Quotes

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jeremy Bentham

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Anonymous

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

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

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

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

Pablo Picasso

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Sidney J. Harris

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

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

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

Associate with well - Mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

Stanley Walke

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

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.

Henry Mille

We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen

We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.

La Rochefoucauld

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

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 best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839

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

Home

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

R. Buckminster Fulle

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