Sons Quotes
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.Home
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
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
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.Robert Frost
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
No two persons ever read the same book.Edmund Wilson
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.Ronald Reagan
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.May Sarton
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.Jacques Maritain
Strong reasons make strong actions.William Shakespeare
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
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
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.George Eliot
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
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
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
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.Friedrich Nietzsche
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.Simone de Beauvoi
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
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
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
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
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.Robert Frost, (attributed)
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.Will Cuppy
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
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
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.Robertson Davies
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
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
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
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
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
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.Henry Mille
