Sons Quotes

George santayana - friends are generally of the same sex, for when...
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
Willis whitney - some men have thousands of reasons why they...
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
Kurt vonnegut, jr. - all persons, living or dead, are purely...
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Henry David Thoreau
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II".
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.
John Pierpoint Morgan
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris
No two persons ever read the same book.
Edmund Wilson
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Dame Edith Sitwell
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
Blaise Pascal
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.
John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
Dora Russell
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.
Robert Frost
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Robert Cecil
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.
Vernon Law
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John Adams
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andr Maurois
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
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Nigerian Prove
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
Henry Mille
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Will Cuppy
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
Pablo Picasso
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
The Talmud
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
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. 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
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Home
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
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan
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
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