Sons Quotes
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.Albert Camus, The Fall
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
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.Neal A. Maxwell
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.Epictetus
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
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.J. Deville
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.Jeremy Bentham
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 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.
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
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.Charles Dickens
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.Homer, The Odyssey
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
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
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
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
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
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]
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons - In - Law.Joan Kise
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 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
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.Aeschylus
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
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
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.Robert Frost, (attributed)
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.Pablo Picasso
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.R. Buckminster Fulle
No two persons ever read the same book.Edmund Wilson
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.Blaise Pascal
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.Marlene Dietrich
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.Dame Edith Sitwell
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
