Sons Quotes

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Jawaharlal Nehru
H. l. mencken - in the united states, doing good has come to be,...
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
Pablo Picasso
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Robertson Davies
Charles dickens - by the time we hit fifty, we have learned our...
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.
John Pierpoint Morgan
Fyodor dostoevsky - the degree of civilization in a society can be...
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839
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
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
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
The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons - In - Law.
Joan Kise
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus
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
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
Croesus of Lydia
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.
Neal A. Maxwell
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
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
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Leonard Bernstein
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
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Arthur Baldwin
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare
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
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.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.
Friedrich Nietzsche