“Death with dignity is better than a life of humiliation.”
Imam Hussain ibn Ali · attributed, Karbala
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Wisdom Quotes
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, You're tearing up the grass. We're not raising grass, Dad would reply. We're raising boys.”
Harmon Killebrew
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us.”
Umberto Eco · Foucault's Pendulum
“My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it. I think that is the best lesson a father can give.”
Will Rogers
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.”
Charles Wadsworth
“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
Frank A. Clark
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare · The Merchant of Venice
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
George Herbert · Jacula Prudentum, 1651
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.”
Charles Wadsworth
“He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare · The Merchant of Venice
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery · Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
“A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.”
Richard Bach · The Bridge Across Forever, 1984
