Sons Quotes

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

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

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

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

James Thurbe

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Law

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.

John Pierpoint Morgan

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Andr Maurois

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

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

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

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

We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.

La Rochefoucauld

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Arthur Baldwin

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

The Talmud

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

What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839

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

Homer, The Odyssey

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Leonard Bernstein

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

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

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

H. L. Mencken

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

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Dame Edith Sitwell