Sons Quotes
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
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.George Eliot
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
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
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
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.Robertson Davies
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...Chief Seattle
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
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.Bertrand Russell
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.Dame Edith Sitwell
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.John le Carre
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
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
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.Blaise Pascal
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
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
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
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
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.Henry David Thoreau
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.Jeremy Bentham
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
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.Sidney J. Harris
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.May Sarton
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.R. Buckminster Fulle
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
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
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
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.Andr Maurois
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
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.Bern Williams
