Sons Quotes

Blaise pascal - we are generally the better persuaded by the...
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
Gilbert keith chesterton - every man has his own courage, and is betrayed...
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton
Bertrand russell - the secret of happiness is this: let your...
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
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".
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Warren Bennis
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.
John Pierpoint Morgan
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
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
John Lancaster Spalding
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
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
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
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
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
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
H. L. Mencken
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
John Lancaster Spalding
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
H. L. Mencken
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
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
George Bancroft
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warne
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
Pablo Picasso
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
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
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
Thomas Carlyle
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.
Robert Frost
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurbe
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
George Frost Kennan
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
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9