Sons Quotes
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.John Pierpoint Morgan
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
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
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.Leonard Bernstein
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.Henry Mille
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
Strong reasons make strong actions.William Shakespeare
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.May Sarton
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
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.Stanley Lindquist
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.Michel de Montaigne
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.Bertrand Russell
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.Joseph Addison
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
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
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.Jawaharlal Nehru
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.Home
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.Walt Whitman
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.Ronald Reagan
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 heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.Blaise Pascal
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
