Sons Quotes
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
Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.Virgil
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.John le Carre
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.Arthur Schopenhaue
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
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
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.H. L. Mencken
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
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
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
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.Thomas Carlyle
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
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.
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.Walt Whitman
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.Nigerian Prove
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.Arthur Schopenhaue
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.John Pierpoint Morgan
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".
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
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.Bern Williams
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.Croesus of Lydia
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
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
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
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.
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]
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.Michel de Montaigne
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.R. Buckminster Fulle
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.Aristotle, Politics
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.Robert Cecil
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
