Sons Quotes
I have a dream that one day... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!Friedrich Nietzsche
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.Blaise Pascal
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.Donald G. Smith
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.
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.Andr Maurois
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.H. L. Mencken
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
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
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
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.Pablo Picasso
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.Homer, The Odyssey
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
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.Robert Frost
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
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.Aristotle, Rhetoric
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
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
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.Albert Camus, The Fall
I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.Marquis de Sade
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.Neal A. Maxwell
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
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]
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
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
