Sons Quotes
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 person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.Thomas Carlyle
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
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
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.Aeschylus
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
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.May Sarton
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.Homer, The Odyssey
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.Jawaharlal Nehru
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!Friedrich Nietzsche
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
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
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
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
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.Neal A. Maxwell
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.H. L. Mencken
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
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 greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.Aristotle, Rhetoric
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
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
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
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
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
Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.Virgil
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.Donald G. Smith
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - Indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.Richard Dawkins
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
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
