An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON SONS
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James Baldwin (1924-1987, American author)
He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
Nicolas Bentley
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
Al Bernstein
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973, Anglo-Irish novelist)
When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
Robert Burns (1759-1796, Scottish poet)
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son.
Andrea Dworkin (1946-, American feminist critic)
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son.
Andrea Dworkin (1946-, American feminist critic)
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965, American-born British poet, critic)
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers; most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Homer (c. 850 -? BC, Greek epic poet)
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963, British author)
Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James (1843-1916, American author)
One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas.
Derek Jarman (1942-, British filmmaker, artist, author)
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
Doug Larson
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon (1940-1980, British rock musician)
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
Aldo Leopold
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
John Marquand (1893-1960, American author)
April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950, American poet)
Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.
Ogden Nash (1902-1971, American humorous poet)
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744, British poet, critic, translator)
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
J. B. Priestley (1894-1984, American writer)
A thorn has a small point, but the person who feels it does not forget its sting.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
Adrienne Rich (1929-, American poet)
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950, American journalist)
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
Arthur Rubenstein
To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.
Walter Schirra Sr.
January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822, British poet)
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
J. M. Synge (1871-1909, Irish poet, dramatist)
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Author Unknown
Spring is not the best of seasons. Cold and flu are two good reasons; wind and rain and other sorrow, warm today and cold tomorrow. Whoever said Spring was romantic? The word that best applies is frantic!
Author Unknown
The affection of a father and a son are different: The father loves the person of the son, and the son loves the memory of his father.
Author Unknown
The best gift a father can give to his son is the gift of himself - his time. For material things mean little, if there is not someone to share them with.
Author Unknown
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