Sons Quotes
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.Donald G. Smith
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
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
All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
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
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.Dora Russell
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.Henry David Thoreau
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
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 difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.Unknown
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.Robert Frost
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.Robertson Davies
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.H. L. Mencken
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.Aristotle, Rhetoric
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".
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
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
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 finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.Aldous Huxley
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.Andr Maurois
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
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.La Rochefoucauld
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
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9
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
