Quotes of Schoolboy - somelinesforyou

“ There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory; but boys, it is all hell. ”

- William Tecumseh Sherman

“ One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. - King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Concluding a short series on education: The devout student is the best of all students. There are too many who are devout, but not students. They will not accept the discipline of study and of learning, and they even look with suspicion upon the further knowledge which study brings to men… ”

- William Barclay

“ I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory. ”

- Jack Handy

“ If this boy passes the examinations he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education. ”

- Edward Everett

“ We were the Spice Boys. ”

- George Harrison

“ As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted. ”

- Baron Manfred von Richthofen

“ Letter home from, college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369. ”

- Unknown

“ The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. ”

- Marva Collins

“ Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. ”

- Anthony Hope Hawkins

“ I think the world is run by 'C' students. ”

- Al McGuire

“ Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring. ”

- Geoffrey Fisher

“ What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ 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. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ Concluding a short series on prayer We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism... To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood… ”

- C. T. Studd

“ Students today are raised on technology, fundamentally changing the educational environment and how students interact, learn and share. Continued focus on eliminating barriers to education by leveraging technology and the network will help bridge the digital divide and deliver world-class education to everyone… ”

- Scott McNealy

“ Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls. ”

- Louise Brown

“ Many times I tell my American students my Iranian students understood how valuable is because they had been deprived of it. Sometimes in the West we need to be reminded of the fact that blood has been paid for what we have. ”

- Azar Nafisi

“ I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. ”

- Bell Hooks

“ This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement — that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it — that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings. ”

- Walter Lippmann
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