Sons Quotes
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
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
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
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
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
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
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
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
The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons - In - Law.Joan Kise
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
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.Friedrich Nietzsche
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.Dora Russell
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
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.George Santayana
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
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
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
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
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.John le Carre
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
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
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.R. Buckminster Fulle
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
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
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.Will Durant
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
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.J. Deville
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 have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
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
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
