Sons Quotes
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.Blaise Pascal
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
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
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
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.R. Buckminster Fulle
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
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
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
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.Friedrich Nietzsche
We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.Golda Meir, to Anwar Saddat just before the peace talks.
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
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.Blaise Pascal
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
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
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.J. Deville
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons - In - Law.Joan Kise
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
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.Epictetus
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.Robert Frost, (attributed)
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
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
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
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
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.Aldous Huxley
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.
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.Albert Camus, The Fall
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
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
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
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
