Sons Quotes
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.Stanley Lindquist
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.Unknown
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
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.Sir Richard Steele
No two persons ever read the same book.Edmund Wilson
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
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
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
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
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
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.Sir Richard Steele
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
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.Robert Frost
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
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.Bern Williams
I have a dream that one day... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.Martin Luther King, Jr.
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.Dora Russell
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
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.Andr Maurois
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
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.H. L. Mencken
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.Pablo Picasso
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
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
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff
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
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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
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
