Sons Quotes
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.Real Live Preache
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
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
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]
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
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
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
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.Home
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
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.Neal A. Maxwell
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
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
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.J. Deville
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
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.Andr Maurois
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
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.Albert Camus, The Fall
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
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
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.John Pierpoint Morgan
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
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
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.Dame Edith Sitwell
No two persons ever read the same book.Edmund Wilson
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
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!Friedrich Nietzsche
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!Friedrich Nietzsche
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
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
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.Warren Bennis
