Sons Quotes
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
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
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.Andr Maurois
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
When I was young, I was sure of many things now there are only two things of which I am sure one is, that I am a miserable sinner and the other, that Christ is an all - Sufficient Saviour. He is well - Taught who learns these two lessons.John Newton
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.J. Deville
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.Michel de Montaigne
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.Jacques Maritain
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
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
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
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
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.Albert Camus, The Fall
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...Chief Seattle
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.Henry Mille
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
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.Robert Frost, (attributed)
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 have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.Marquis de Sade
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.John le Carre
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
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
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
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.Thomas Carlyle
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.Walt Whitman
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
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
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.Bern Williams
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
