Sons Quotes

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.

Robert Frost

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

Marlene Dietrich

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

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

Thomas Carlyle

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.

Bertrand Russell

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

John Adams

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Anita Brookne

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

Albert Camus, The Fall

Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.

Blaise Pascal

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Jawaharlal Nehru

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

H. L. Mencken

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

Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff

Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.

The Talmud

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

Walt Whitman

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Home

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Neal A. Maxwell

All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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

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

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

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

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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Blaise Pascal

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

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

Michel de Montaigne

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.

J. Deville