Top 39 Quotes About Schoolboys
#1. Gentlemen used to lie just as schoolboys lie, because they hung together and partly to help one another out.
G.K. Chesterton
#2. Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.
Soren Kierkegaard
#3. Do you know that line of Kierkegaard's, Canon Chambers? "There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves."
James Runcie
#5. Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.
Theodore Roethke
#6. Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
Emile Zola
#7. Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.
Robert E.Lee
#8. A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.
T. S. Eliot
#9. I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that paederastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.
Aleister Crowley
#10. Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn't 'whining,' it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.
Alan Gibson
#11. It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.
David Benedictus
#13. The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
Tom Petty
#14. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
William Shakespeare
#16. You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. I'm from southern Arelon, Princess," Ahan said, reaching for some more clams. "To us, round is beautiful. Not everyone wants their women to look like starving schoolboys.
Brandon Sanderson
#18. The Nazis may write like schoolboys, but they're capable of anything. That's just why they're so dangerous. People laugh at them, right up to the last moment...
Christopher Isherwood
#19. Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.
L.P. Hartley
#20. Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#21. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.
Charles Darwin
#22. lads who were to fight, and perhaps fall, on the fields of France and Flanders, Gallipoli and Palestine, were still roguish schoolboys with a fair life in prospect before
L.M. Montgomery
#23. The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
Georg Brandes
#24. There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves.
Soren Kierkegaard
#25. Gasps erupted from his nostrils like grouse from a thicket, schoolboys onto a recess yard, grease spatters from frying bacon.
Dennis Vickers
#26. O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like schoolboys, at the expected warning,
To joy and play.
Robert Burns
#27. Pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing grew there, and that which passed through it, more heedless than children, did not even, like them, leave a name carved upon the wall.
Gustave Flaubert
#28. I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything. Anne Sexton, in a letter to W.D. Snodgrass (November 28, 1958)
Anne Sexton
#29. We are made exactly as God wants us to be. We only need to lift our minds above Earth's empty sorrows so that we can rejoice in the Divine joy.
Julian Of Norwich
#30. He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.
Philo
#31. The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin.
Sam Underwood
#32. Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
Ian Somerhalder
#33. There are some battles you can't win, no matter how much you fight.
Jessamine Verzosa
#34. Love is a Dance set on the stage of Forgiveness and Grace.
Todd Stocker
#35. Ghosts are laid to rest when injustices are righted, when their duties are fulfilled. But my mother's duty is to make me happy so long as I live. So there is not rest for her, and no escape for me. I will be happy and happy until it kills me.
Rosamund Hodge
#36. It hapens very often that parents think they are worred about the progress a boy is making. they do not realise that all boys are numskulls with o branes which is not surprising when you look at the parents really the whole thing goes on and on and there is no stoping it it is a vicious circle.
Geoffrey Willans
#38. His body came home, but his soul had been devoured in the firefight of a godless desert.
Andrea Randall
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