quotes about boys being jerks

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present


For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. ~Loring A. Schuler


On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love. Always love. For something, from someone. It's never done. Never. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. ~Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927


When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired. ~Author Unknown


One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ~Thomas Fuller


Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. ~Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel


You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ~Joan Baez


A family is a patchwork of love. ~Author Unknown


Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb


Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world. ~Albert Camus


Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. ~G.K. Chesterton


People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel. ~Voltaire, Traite sur la tolerance


Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ~Jean Cocteau


War is fear cloaked in courage. ~William Westmoreland


For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord! ~Walt Mason


Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital. ~Carrie Latet


A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie