Lad Quotes - Page 3

• I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jobs, Son, Thinking

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• To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Marriage, Divorce, Thinking

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• I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Heart, Adventure

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912”

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• The centuries will burn rich loads
  With which we groaned,
  Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids,
  While songs are crooned:
  But they will not dream of us poor lads,
  Left in the ground.

  Wilfred Owen

  Dream, Song, Time

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• Who can live in heart so glad
  As the merry country lad?

  Nicholas Breton

  Happiness, Country, Heart

  Nicholas Breton (1893). “A Bower of Delights: Being Interwoven Verse and Prose from the Works of Nicholas Breton”

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• And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.

  Josh Billings

  Bird, Together, Example

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• A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Team, Fall, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.129, Penguin

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• Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Brave, Heaven

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1985, Manonmani Publishers

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• On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

  Thomas Campbell

  Happiness, Dog, Play

  'The Harper' (1799)

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• A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

  William Nicholson

  Suffering, Plastic, Wells

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• It was a mistake of mine to tell the lads that this lot don't score too many goals - and statistically they don't - but then they go and score seven.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Mistake, Goal, Seven

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• It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against. 
  (on the 'This Anfield' plaque)

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Anfield, England

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• I love it when the team scores... the lads are always giving me stick because of it, but I'm just so happy I can't help it.

  Roy Keane

  Team, Giving, Sticks

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• "Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Anchors, Let It Go

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.284

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• I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.

  Sarah Hall

  Tattoo, Men, He Man

  Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.149, Faber & Faber

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• Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

  Lawrence Block

  Sex, Young, Booze

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• I guess music is just something I've kind of always done. I never really thought too much about it, it was just another way to create, and I did it as a pretty young lad.

  BØRNS

  Done, Too Much, Way

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

  Ken Kesey

  Failure, Facts, Failing

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• Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are.

  David Gemmell

  Together, Who We Are

  David Gemmell (2011). “The King Beyond The Gate”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.

  Mother Jones

  Boys, Years, Jail

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• Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.

  David Richo

  Life Lesson, School, Fate

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

  Tim Powers

  Wages

  Tim Powers (2011). “The Drawing of the Dark”, p.140, Del Rey

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• I really rate Paul Scholes, because he hasn't got the high profile of many of the Manchester United players, he doesn't get too much attention, but he is one very good player. He is an intelligent player, he works hard and he scores some great goals. He is not flamboyant and is a quiet lad off the pitch but he is a tremendous asset to Manchester United and to England. He has already got my vote as player of the year.

  Tony Adams

  Hard Work, Intelligent, Player

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• We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League.

  Joe Kinnear

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'

  Ross Kemp

  School, Army, Thinking

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