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In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.


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In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
HERODOTUS In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
CROESUS No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in wa...
CROESUS OF LYDIA 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. No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons b...
HERODOTUS He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'
HERODOTUS For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their father...
HOMER Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.
HOMER Good fathers make good sons
LILLIAN HELLMAN War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury ...
JEH JOHNSON Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
JANE D. HULL Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend...
VIKRANT PARSAI Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way t...
BRAYLON EDWARDS Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers
HERBERT KAUFMAN The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s...
IRIS CHANG Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON They won’t turn away a father who has come to find his son.
T.K. NALIAKA Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of pe...
PAUL ROBESON We have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would grow old and ...
MELINA MARCHETTA 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 Some years later, after Scott’s death, we came my father and I to the Field Museum, a long dismal ...
WALKER PERCY But with all this said, wine was given to gladden the heart of man (Ps. 104:15), and one of the duti...
DOUGLAS WILSON Not long after our final lesson, on one of our Sundays at the lake, my father and I were walking alo...
ANNE MICHAELS Because so many functions are for fathers and sons, this is for fathers to bring them closer to thei...
EUNICE TUCKER At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.
CHINESE PROVERB And William says, "I lost one son utterly."... ..."So I've held my tongue. But the truth is you didn...
ROBERT OLEN BUTLER The war affects us here in Newfane. It affects us when our mothers and fathers and sons and daughter...
DAN DEWALT Just that sons and fathers
Are like mirrors and daughters are soft
RICHARD L. RATLIFF I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn’t or hasn’t or wouldn’t or ...
CAMERON CONAWAY I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.
JOHN GREEN Dad had once said, Trust your mind, Rob. If it smells like shit but has writing across it that says ...
GEORGE SAUNDERS Hmm. Relationships between fathers and sons can be notoriously difficult, especially for two men who...
LYNN AUSTIN Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face ...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; I...
RUDYARD KIPLING A father never gives up on a son, not really, no matter how poorly he behaves at times or how many s...
ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND Every child grows up thinking their father is a hero or villain until they are old enough to realize...
MARK MAISH I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw ...
ARTHUR MILLER Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens th...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he w...
MARK SLOUKA He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right."
"Who is Mark?"
"A silly little boy who ...
HILARY MANTEL I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly h...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
ALEXANDER POPE With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on...
BRAD PITT The sins of the Fathers that are visited upon the Sons is not ignorance, but indifference to the tru...
TONNY K. BROWN The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one spo...
MICHAEL LEWIS Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fath...
EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS The older we get, the louder others hear the echo of our father in us.
GRANT FAIRLEY You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his ...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I must be old, Pyotr thought to himself, if my son is being kind to me.
KATHERINE ARDEN When she asked what my father taught me, I told her I couldn't put it into words. But then I lay awa...
PETER GEYE And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderland...
PETER GEYE Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. T...
T. REAL Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfu...
BERNARD TAYLOR Last year we had 55 teams, and we're on pace to break 60 teams this year. We have fathers bringing i...
BRENT GENTRY All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of thre...
RASHOD OLLISON Our era has produced many great men--- robber barons, masters of innovation, beast of business---who...
ANNA GODBERSEN At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grievi...
TIM O'BRIEN There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans ar...
ABHIJIT NASKAR A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fa...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Let the dead bury their dead.
BIBLE I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and ...
RYAN ZINKE People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions.
AMIT KALANTRI Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 But sons who are mor...
JOHN CALVIN People have the right to bury their family members in peace. I find it repugnant that anybody would ...
SEN. JEAN SCHODORF The child still needs them (fathers) in their life.
CHARLES TURNER If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES BALDWIN If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.
AMIT KALANTRI Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage i...
DAVID GOTTESMAN Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly countr...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole...
TUCKER ELLIOT The new generation of fathers is interested in doing this, and fathers are taking more time to be wi...
CINDY CHU Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fa...
GREG VAUGHN We found that mothers showed no differential behavior toward their sons versus their daughters. They...
ELIZABETH LONSDORF Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are...
CHANAKYA Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'

I still think that's the bravest thing I'...
CHINA MIéVILLE I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because m...
GLORIA STEINEM I ask for your support for our brave men fighting tonight halfway around the world, not for territor...
RICHARD M. NIXON There were victims, and people couldn't bury their loved ones,
DR. DAVID GROSSMAN The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the so...
QUEEN LILIUOKALANI OF HAWAII My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB You can deny him, he thought, watching his father across the table. You can hate him, love him, pity...
BEN FOUNTAIN They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part aw...
DAVID BENNUN There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin...
ELIE WIESEL Books are immortal sons deifying their sires
PLATO Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But...
ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
HERODOTUS Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
HERODOTUS To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
HERODOTUS In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
HERODOTUS But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
HERODOTUS It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that ...
HERODOTUS Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
HERODOTUS A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who belie...
HERODOTUS Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he i...
HERODOTUS One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown...
HERODOTUS Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
HERODOTUS If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the...
HERODOTUS A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who beli...
HERODOTUS All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
HERODOTUS Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
HERODOTUS How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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HERODOTUS The destiny of man is in his own soul
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HERODOTUS In view of all this, I have no doubt that Cambyses was completely out of his mind; it is the only po...
HERODOTUS The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
HERODOTUS It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUS Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
HERODOTUS If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he...
HERODOTUS Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
HERODOTUS Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
HERODOTUS Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
HERODOTUS Great things are won by great dangers.
HERODOTUS He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to h...
HERODOTUS The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his pla...
HERODOTUS If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best cus...
HERODOTUS It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than...
HERODOTUS In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter...
HERODOTUS Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious histor...
HERODOTUS Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious histo...
HERODOTUS This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
HERODOTUS The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
HERODOTUS Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses wi...
HERODOTUS Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
HERODOTUS In soft regions are born soft men.
HERODOTUS Haste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUS Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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HERODOTUS Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary...
HERODOTUS When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
HERODOTUS Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever...
HERODOTUS Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change
HERODOTUS Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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HERODOTUS Men trust their ears less than their eyes
HERODOTUS call no man happy until he is dead
HERODOTUS The order was obeyed and when [the Greek general] saw gold and silver couches all beautifully draped...
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HERODOTUS The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
HERODOTUS There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
HERODOTUS The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HERODOTUS But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
HERODOTUS Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace...
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HERODOTUS I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather t...
HERODOTUS Swine are held by the Egyptians to be unclean beasts. In the first place, if an Egyptian touches a h...
HERODOTUS Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty
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HERODOTUS He advises them that tough lands produce tough peoples, so, if they wish to retain the empire he has...
HERODOTUS It is the work of unjust men, we think, to carry off women at all; but once they have been carried o...
HERODOTUS I believe that the women were called by the Dodonaeans “doves” because they were barbarians, and...
HERODOTUS So much, then, for the fish.
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HERODOTUS human prosperity never abides long in the same place,
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HERODOTUS But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging th...
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HERODOTUS Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
HERODOTUS He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'
HERODOTUS God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
HERODOTUS All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
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HERODOTUS Porque nadie es tan necio que prefiera la guerra a la paz: en ésta los hijos entierran a sus padres...
HERODOTUS Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their...
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