quotes for boys who are players

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911


Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others. ~Henry Taylor


If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. ~Oliver Herford


Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. ~Quentin Crisp


Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love. ~Terri Guillemets


Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. ~George Jean Nathan, House of Satan


Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. ~Jean Kerr


And life and love and peace are all new born. ~Alice Freeman Palmer


We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. ~Vince Lombardi


A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. ~Jeremy Collier


Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit, either. ~Elizabeth Zimmerman


After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. ~C.C. Colton


Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else. ~Winston Churchill


Language is the dress of thought. ~Samuel Johnson


Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb


But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Gifts," Essays, Second Series, 1844


It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. ~Raymond Chandler