quotes for a boy

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Studies"


I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ~George Gallup I could smell myself awake with that coffee. ~Jaesse Tyler


My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ~Joan Rivers


Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ~Emily Dickinson


Reality bites... and doesn't let go. ~Author Unknown


It's better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash. ~Author Unknown


Jealousy is the great exaggerator. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783


The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. ~Mencius, Book IV


I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. ~Oscar Wilde


If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. ~Samuel Butler


Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? ~William Lloyd Garrison


Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother! ~St Jerome


Find a need and fill it. ~Ruth Stafford Peale


Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ~Thomas Mann


The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ~Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953


There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. ~Mary Montagu


He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. ~Benjamin Franklin


My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ~Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968


Pearls around the neck - stones upon the heart. ~Hanan J. Ayalti, Yiddish Proverbs, 1949


Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. ~Jean de la Fontaine