Sons Quotes

Prophet mohammad, bukhari & muslim - when two persons are together, two of them must...
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
Walt Whitman
La rochefoucauld - we do not regret the loss of our friends by...
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frederick douglass, speech, april 1886 - where justice is denied, where poverty is...
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.
Robert Frost
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
Now we are all sons of bitches.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, After viewing 1st full test of manhattan project at trinity, NM. Invention and Technology magazine, 2001
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.
Edgar Albert Guest
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
Dora Russell
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.
Vernon Law
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
Blaise Pascal
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
Thomas Carlyle
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
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
The Talmud
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
Bern Williams
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan
Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.
Virgil
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
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Homer, The Odyssey
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.
Blaise Pascal
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.
Honore de Balzac
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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 best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
George Bancroft
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost, (attributed)
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
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
H. L. Mencken
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
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
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
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
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fulle