quotes on boys attitude

   

   

Quote A: �Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.� ~Author Unknown

O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better� In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven. ~Plato

I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ~Ralph Ellison

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. ~Robert K. Merton, Social Theory, 1957

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. ~Voltaire

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. ~Chief Luther Standing Bear

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. ~Mark Twain

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588

Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices. ~Shana Alexander

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. ~Hebrews 13:2

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. ~Alfred Kreymborg

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. ~Andy Rooney

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ~Leo Rosten Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously. ~Arland Ussher

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. ~E.F. Schumacher

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book

Handwriting is autobiography. ~Carrie Latet

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson