Sons Quotes

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Donald Robert Perry Marquis

Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.

Virgil

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

H. L. Mencken

What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

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

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

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Law

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.

Henry Mille

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Simone de Beauvoi

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

Dora Russell

When I was young, I was sure of many things now there are only two things of which I am sure one is, that I am a miserable sinner and the other, that Christ is an all - Sufficient Saviour. He is well - Taught who learns these two lessons.

John Newton

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

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Anonymous

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

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

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview

When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him.

Prophet Mohammad, Bukhari & Muslim

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

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jeremy Bentham

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal

The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.

Donald G. Smith

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

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

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".

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

John Lancaster Spalding

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

Pablo Picasso