Sons Quotes

Now we are all sons of bitches.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, After viewing 1st full test of manhattan project at trinity, NM. Invention and Technology magazine, 2001

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Walter Stegne

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

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

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

Robert Frost, (attributed)

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

Real Live Preache

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Robertson Davies

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

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

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Andr Maurois

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

Anonymous

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

Neal A. Maxwell

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...

Chief Seattle

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

James Thurbe

Strong reasons make strong actions.

William Shakespeare

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

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

John le Carre

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

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

H. L. Mencken

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

George Eliot

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

Virgil

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

John Lancaster Spalding

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

Charles Caleb Colton

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Donald Robert Perry Marquis

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

Henry David Thoreau

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 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

The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.

Unknown

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

Hunter S. Thompson

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