Sons Quotes
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.Blaise Pascal
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.Pablo Picasso
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.Homer, The Odyssey
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.Joseph Addison
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
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
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
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
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
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
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.Warren Bennis
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
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
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.Aristotle, Rhetoric
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!Friedrich Nietzsche
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.Blaise Pascal
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 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
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!Friedrich Nietzsche
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.J. Deville
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.Charles Dickens
