Sons Quotes

William shakespeare, the merchant of venice - the man that hath no music in himself, nor is not...
Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.
Virgil
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.
Vernon Law
Albert camus, the fall - there are always reasons for murdering a man. but...
Willis whitney - some men have thousands of reasons why they...
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.
Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost, (attributed)
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
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
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.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
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
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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.
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
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
George Frost Kennan
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
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.
Phyllis Chesle
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9
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
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
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
Pablo Picasso
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.
Charles Robert Darwin
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
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
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II".
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.
Robert Frost
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
Walt Whitman
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 sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons - In - Law.
Joan Kise
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
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fulle