Sons Quotes

John lancaster spalding - do definite good first of all to yourself, then...
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost, (attributed)
Friedrich nietzsche - how good bad music and bad reasons sound when one...
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Jawaharlal nehru - a leader or a man of action in a crisis almost...
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Walter Stegne
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
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
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
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
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
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.
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
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
Blaise Pascal
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Robertson Davies
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
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
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Henry David Thoreau
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan
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
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
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
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Home
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookne
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
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
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurbe
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
John Lancaster Spalding
I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
Marquis de Sade
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
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
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.
All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.
Virgil
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
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
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fulle