quotes for boys you like

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. ~Honore de Balzac


My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. ~Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band


Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay


I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. ~C.E. Cowman


I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others? ~Maurice Maeterlinck


To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. ~William Shakespeare


With an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. ~Samuel Johnson


We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives. ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979


If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason


Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. ~Brian Aldiss


Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations


You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ~St. Bernard


It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah


To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner


It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. ~Edith Sitwell


Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ~Orson Welles


Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors. ~Eldridge Cleaver, "Notes on a Native Son," Soul on Ice, 1968


My childhood smells like a box of Crayola crayons. ~Jessi Lane Adams


An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. ~Helen Rowland