Lad Quotes

• A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

  Emily Bronte

  Heart, Ugly, Faces

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.408, Penguin

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• Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

  E. B. White

  Birthday, Special, Age

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• Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

  A. E. Housman

  Luck, Chance, Trouble

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  A. E. Housman

  Beer, Sky, Ale

  Last Poems (1922) no. 9

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• Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dog, Swans, Blood

  Charles Kingsley, “Young And Old”

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• The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  A. E. Housman

  Beer, Dust, Sky

  Last Poems (1922) no. 9

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  Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

  Jules Verne

  Mistake, Science, Experience

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
  Breath's aware that will not keep.
  Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

  A. E. Housman

  Time, Travel, Lying

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• Now hollow fires burn out to black,
  And lights are fluttering low:
  Square your shoulders, lift your pack
  And leave your friends and go.
  O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
  Look not to left nor right:
  In all the endless road you tread
  There's nothing but the night.

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Night, Fire

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• Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

  John Steinbeck

  Syntax, Republic, Has Beens

  The Atlantic magazine, November 1969.

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• The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dog, Baby, Horse

  The Water Babies "Young and Old" l. 1 (1863)

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• They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

  A. E. Housman

  Men, Glory, Dies

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics

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• Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Humorous, Sleep

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 1 (1896)

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• They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

  John Millington Synge

  Cheer, Champion, World

  John Millington Synge, Ann Saddlemyer (1998). “Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.

  A. E. Housman

  Flower, Farewell, Heart

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Dad, Littles, Likes

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• When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

  A. E. Housman

  Wise, Heart, Men

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 13

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• And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

  A. E. Housman

  Cheer, Silence, Sound

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

  A. E. Housman

  Land, Shining, Nostalgia

  A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)

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• Therefore, since the world has still
  Much good, but much less good than ill

  A. E. Housman

  Evil, World, Goodness

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

  A. E. Housman

  Wise, Moon, Men

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.89, Delphi Classics

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• Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

  A. E. Housman

  Country, Blow, Air

  A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)

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• Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

  A. E. Housman

  Hope, Lying, Believe

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics

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• When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.

  A. E. Housman

  Sleep, Journey, Enough

  'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) no. 4

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• Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and he seemed prepared to stare at it until it went under. In the Kitchen Bridget was still singing one of her awful sad songs; the lyrics drifted in through the door: "Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air, I heard a maid making her moan; Said, 'Saw ye my father? Or ye my mother? Or saw ye my brother John? Or saw ye the lad that I love best, And his name it is Sweet William?" I may murder her, Tessa thought. Let her make a song about that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Sweet, Song

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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