Sons Quotes
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
No two persons ever read the same book.Edmund Wilson
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!Friedrich Nietzsche
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.Donald G. Smith
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
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
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.
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
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.Henry David Thoreau
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
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.Ronald Reagan
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
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
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.Arthur Schopenhaue
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
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.Dame Edith Sitwell
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
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
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
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
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
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
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
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
When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him.Prophet Mohammad, Bukhari & Muslim
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
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
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.Virgil
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.Robert Frost
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
