Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their father...
HOMER Few sons attain the praise
Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
HERODOTUS In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.
HERODOTUS Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON SR. Just that sons and fathers
Are like mirrors and daughters are soft
RICHARD L. RATLIFF In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
CROESUS Amongst the sons of men how few are known
Who dare be just to merit not their own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
JANE D. HULL Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers
HERBERT KAUFMAN For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.
AMOR TOWLES No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in wa...
CROESUS OF LYDIA At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.
CHINESE PROVERB We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more lik...
GLORIA STEINEM Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few ...
JOSEPH ADDISON For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see ...
DIANE ACKERMAN There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.
JOHN GRISHAM We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more...
GLORIA STEINEM A few of the stories are very sad war stories, but most of them are about their experiences,
DAVID HARRELL Because so many functions are for fathers and sons, this is for fathers to bring them closer to thei...
EUNICE TUCKER No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons b...
HERODOTUS Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A few honest men are better than numbers.
OLIVER CROMWELL A few honest men are better than numbers
OLIVER CROMWELL Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. Ther...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL We are not all humans_ most are demons while few are angels.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life than ...
JILL CONNER BROWNE He changed our team's persona and intensity on the defensive end.
MARK FEW I'm ecstatic. I'm so proud of this group of guys. They just had a steely resolve tonight.
MARK FEW The theme seems to be going toward thug ball. We should be shooting 60 free throws per game.
MARK FEW It's like being with the Stones and Beatles.
MARK FEW He's a fiery, fiery competitor. His greatest attribute is not that he makes shots, it's how hard he ...
MARK FEW The latest technologies are often sexy, but beware of solutions that vendors dress up like trollops,...
STEPHEN FEW You don't want to lose sight of just how amazing he is. You've got to kick yourself once in a while ...
MARK FEW Plus we can score in different ways, which is good, because last year we depended way too much on Bl...
MARK FEW He's just got a knack for hitting closely guarded shots. And there aren't many players who can do th...
MARK FEW I was really apprehensive about this game and the key is we took care of the ball in the second half...
MARK FEW He's awfully proud of it.
MARK FEW He's probably the least politically correct of any of our guys and he doesn't seem to mind inciting ...
MARK FEW It's reached the point of ridiculous. He's so not interested in all that.
MARK FEW I don't think guys should ever say that. They are questioning the integrity of the game of basketbal...
MARK FEW Teams have been coming at us all year. We get everyone's best shot and the last (few) games were no ...
MARK FEW I'm really impressed with how we showed up and finished off 14-0. I don't care how you get there, it...
MARK FEW That's quite a select group we are in. I'm proud of all the guys that have been here and put everyth...
MARK FEW It's been a tough year. We've had to milk, and pull, and milk and pull ...
MARK FEW ...I love to drive fast. It's a rush.
STEPHEN FEW Good fathers make good sons
LILLIAN HELLMAN Most people claim to be human, though few actually are.
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM SPADI Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so ...
SIDNEY HOWARD Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend...
VIKRANT PARSAI Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
J. SWARTZ Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
WILLIAM STYRON Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way t...
BRAYLON EDWARDS A calm person knows their business, their words are few, but they tell and looks like it is well pla...
RASHID JORVEE Maybe a few people won't come that would have been here. But it looks like most people are here.
JOE GREELEY There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
MASON COOLEY The sons of God are different because they are givers, just like their Heavenly father
SUNDAY ADELAJA The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans ar...
ABHIJIT NASKAR The sins of the Fathers that are visited upon the Sons is not ignorance, but indifference to the tru...
TONNY K. BROWN They won’t turn away a father who has come to find his son.
T.K. NALIAKA Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage i...
DAVID GOTTESMAN So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.
RAY BRADBURY Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifest...
FABIOLA GIANOTTI Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama...
SHARON GLESS To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
JEAN ROSTAND To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
JEAN ROSTAND You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.
JOSEPH BARBERA Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless...
EDWARD DAHLBERG So few grown women like their lives
KATHARINE GRAHAM i am among meny men but few are like me.
BRIAN KEITH STEPHENS There are a few that are running, but it's really just a few.
ERIC CORNELIUS No local outbreaks reported and very few reports of infections. Most companies are seeing the virus ...
ALLAN BELL The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s...
IRIS CHANG There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Most of our regional airports are growing; with very few exceptions, they're all growing,
CHARLES FELDMAN Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends."
"That's not true...
RICHELLE MEAD Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
W. C. FIELDS Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live...
DOUGLAS ADAMS We have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would grow old and ...
MELINA MARCHETTA Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
ANTONIO PORCHIA The airlines are doing their best to get back to normal. It usually takes a few days, but we expect ...
ALAN HICKS In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There are a few times where it looks like the actors are about to smile.
JASON BALLWEBER At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grievi...
TIM O'BRIEN Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the g...
HERMANN HESSE Most people are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the gro...
HERMAN HESSE That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero a...
MARKUS ZUSAK Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But...
ALEKSANDER KAASNIEWSKI my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit...
ERIC RIPERT Kinder machen sich Phantasievorstellungen von ihren Vätern, formen sie sich nach ihren kindlichen B...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
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It is not right to glory in the slain.
HOMER Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.
HOMER The rose Dawn might have found them weeping still had not grey-eyed Athena slowed the night when nig...
HOMER There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, ...
HOMER For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother
HOMER The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
HOMER Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
HOMER Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
HOMER Light is the task where many share the toil.
HOMER And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
HOMER A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
HOMER Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
HOMER I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
HOMER How vain, without the merit, is the name.
HOMER Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a sing...
HOMER Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.
HOMER A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly.
HOMER At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,
Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:
Then,...
HOMER For too much rest becomes a pain.
HOMER There will be killing till the score is paid.
HOMER Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
HOMER The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
HOMER Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
HOMER The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gen...
HOMER Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught th...
HOMER Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
HOMER Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
HOMER The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, ...
HOMER The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
HOMER A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
HOMER Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
HOMER The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
HOMER For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their father...
HOMER There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...
HOMER A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
HOMER Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
HOMER It is not good to have a rule of many.
HOMER To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those wh...
HOMER In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
HOMER Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from th...
HOMER True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
HOMER Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
HOMER Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
HOMER Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
HOMER Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
HOMER The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
HOMER Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
HOMER There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
HOMER Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
HOMER But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp con...
HOMER Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint ...
HOMER …There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—mag...
HOMER Winged words.
HOMER At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince!...
HOMER It is a wise child that knows his own father.
HOMER A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
HOMER The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
HOMER The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
HOMER You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
HOMER Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
HOMER We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
HOMER There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the...
HOMER The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
HOMER So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor ...
HOMER Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the ...
HOMER May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a ho...
HOMER Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they th...
HOMER It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
HOMER It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You...
HOMER I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood ...
HOMER Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
HOMER Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee co...
HOMER Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, a...
HOMER It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
HOMER It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
HOMER It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
HOMER It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his de...
HOMER If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
HOMER I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
HOMER He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when h...
HOMER He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
HOMER Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the sam...
HOMER A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
HOMER A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, w...
HOMER A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and...
HOMER A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
HOMER It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to ...
HOMER I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
HOMER Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
HOMER Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. F...
HOMER By their own follies they perished, the fools.
HOMER All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
HOMER All men have need of the gods.
HOMER A small rock holds back a great wave.
HOMER Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both...
HOMER You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has giv...
HOMER Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselv...
HOMER There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.
HOMER There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
HOMER Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
HOMER Do not mourn the dead with the belly
HOMER Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.
HOMER And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
HOMER All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious
HOMER Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told s...
HOMER Far and near friends knew this house; for he whose home it was had much acquaintance in the world
HOMER The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
HOMER Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that s...
HOMER No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he ...
HOMER Hektor, argue me no agreements. I cannot forgive you.
As there are no trustworthy oaths between...
HOMER Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,
even so I will endure…
For al...
HOMER But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, nev...
HOMER Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do every...
HOMER And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing ...
HOMER We ask that (employees) take care of your personal business as needed. Should you require more time ...
HOMER Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across...
HOMER Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
HOMER How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
HOMER I'm satisfied. It's straight, ... But it's just so hot, and I'm just so frustrated.
HOMER There is nothing nothing more nobler or more admirable than two
people who see eye to eye keeping ho...
HOMER Wisdom never lies
HOMER By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
HOMER Achilles absent, was Achilles still
HOMER A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly
HOMER …and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you ...
HOMER Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet ...
HOMER Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.
HOMER Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
HOMER Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing, and dancing sooner than war
HOMER [I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at ...
HOMER He went off without a word along the shore of the sounding sea.
HOMER For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and...
HOMER They would eat its blossoms and stalks in the spring, ... And use its fiber to make rabbit nets, san...
HOMER Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured
HOMER Too many kings can ruin an army
HOMER But when he spoke, that great voice of his poured out of his chest in words like the snowflakes of w...
HOMER By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember
HOMER [B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals.
The sinews no longer hold the fle...
HOMER Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying togeth...
HOMER down from his brow
she ran his curls
like thick hyacinth clusters
full of blooms
HOMER Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.
HOMER These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them,
or he can enjoy listening to storie...
HOMER Immortals are never alien to one another.
HOMER So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all....
HOMER out of sight,out of mind
HOMER And empty words are evil.
HOMER Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his de...
HOMER some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind
HOMER Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
HOMER My name is Nobody.
HOMER Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themsel...
HOMER Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their mis...
HOMER Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death
HOMER Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.
HOMER A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a t...
HOMER There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
HOMER Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive...
HOMER The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy ...
HOMER …but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
HOMER There was one on Kentucky Avenue that sunk so much that a lady couldn't even get out of her driveway...
HOMER When your design stinks, Engineering 101 says admit your mistakes and go back to the drawing board,
HOMER After the event, even a fool is wise
HOMER Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen but his country's cause
HOMER I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another
HOMER The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
HOMER What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...
HOMER ...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glit...
HOMER For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...
HOMER Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
HOMER Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HOMER I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see th...
WINSLOW HOMER Roads are just a suggestion, like pants.
HOMER SIMPSON It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
HOMER HICKAM The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.
WINSLOW HOMER I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to ...
HOMER HICKAM I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by an...
WINSLOW HOMER That's another way we can support the program.
CARL HOMER The exponential costs of Medicaid are increasing at a rate they probably can't afford.
CARL HOMER You can't play with one hand in this business at all. You have to be really focused.
CARL HOMER At this time we're not prepared to devote the kind of resources needed to succeed. Not in the forese...
CARL HOMER Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil pi...
WINSLOW HOMER A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse.
HOMER HICKAM Mmm... Organized Crime
HOMER SIMPSON 'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?
HOMER SIMPSON Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
WINSLOW HOMER You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of o...
WINSLOW HOMER The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and...
HOMER SIMPSON I wouldn't go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get th...
WINSLOW HOMER It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in 8 ...
HOMER SIMPSON Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years' time &...
WINSLOW HOMER Trying is the first step towards failure". - Homer Simpson
HOMER SIMPSON Why don't those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?
HOMER SIMPSON Jebus, Buddha, I love you alllllllllllllllllll
HOMER SIMPSON Stupid Flounders!
HOMER SIMPSON We have learn't a very valuable leasson today: it's better to watch stuff then to do stuff.
HOMER SIMPSON Just because i don't listen doesn't mean i don't understand.
HOMER SIMPSON If you're going to get mad at me everytime I do something stupid then I guess I'll have to stop doin...
HOMER SIMPSON Marge, don’t discourage the boy. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separa...
HOMER SIMPSON