(1905 quotes found)
“They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a friend in whom we can confide, and she only is a wife in whose company the husband feels contented and peaceful.”
Chanakya
“To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.”
Harry S Truman
“What is the use of having many sons if they cause grief and vexation?”
“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
“I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender; beat their wife or husband; or gamble. I hope they would gamble.”
Pete Rose
“The wise speak only of what they know, Grima son of Galmod. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till th”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.”
William Shakespeare
“Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.”
Persian Proverb
“But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one day, she bore it with a good courage, because of the hope that she had in the Lord.”
Bible
“A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair”
Niccolo Machiavelli
