funny quotes and sayings about boys

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world. ~Author Unknown


God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary. ~Terri Guillemets


May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ~Edward Abbey


The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. ~Peggy Ryan


Raindrops are like fairy whispers. ~Author Unknown


Two monologues do not make a dialogue. ~Jeff Daly


A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. ~Charlie Brower


An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb


A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. ~J.M. Barrie


He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb


Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science. ~Martin H. Fischer


Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. ~Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon


I take a vitamin every day. It's called a steak. ~Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick, Kicking & Screaming, 2005, spoken by the character Buck Weston


Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. ~Rose Macaulay


There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. ~Vauvenargues


Let God's promises shine on your problems. ~Corrie Ten Boom


Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~Edwin Markham


No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires


Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday. ~A.A. Milne


God hides things by putting them all around us. ~Author Unknown