Sons Quotes
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.Home
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.Albert Camus, The Fall
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
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.Henry Mille
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.Dame Edith Sitwell
The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons - In - Law.Joan Kise
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
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!Friedrich Nietzsche
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.J. Deville
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.Donald G. Smith
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
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.Blaise Pascal
Strong reasons make strong actions.William Shakespeare
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
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
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.John le Carre
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.George Eliot
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
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
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.Thomas Carlyle
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.H. L. Mencken
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
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.Walt Whitman
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
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
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
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.Bertrand Russell
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.Phyllis Chesle
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.Kahlil Gibran
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.Henry David Thoreau
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
