Sons Quotes
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
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.Dame Edith Sitwell
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
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
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.H. L. Mencken
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.Robert Frost, (attributed)
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.Ronald Reagan
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.Robert Frost
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
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
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.Henry Mille
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.George Frost Kennan
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
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
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 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
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
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
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.Blaise Pascal
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.Albert Camus, The Fall
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.Max Nordau
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
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
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