Mark Twain Quotes, Boys Quotes, Used Quotes

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Pride Quotes , Boys Quotes

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Insecure Quotes , Boys Quotes

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

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Somewhere you are holding the person I love," the boy said. "So, when I look out over your sands, I am also looking at her. I want to return to her, and I need your help so that I can turn myself into the wind.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Boys Quotes , Wind Quotes

These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Sunshine Quotes , Boys Quotes

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Animal Quotes , Boys Quotes

I confess I do not admire naked boys. They always seem to me to need clothes, whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Girl Quotes , Boys Quotes

But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Art Quotes , Boys Quotes

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Girl Quotes , Boys Quotes

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Boys Quotes , Details Quotes

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Boys Quotes , Fairy Quotes

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Boys Quotes , Play Quotes

The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Dream Quotes , Boys Quotes

When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.

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Tags : Adam Young Quotes , Eye Quotes , Boys Quotes

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Boys Quotes , Men Quotes

Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Girl Quotes , Boys Quotes

Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Father Quotes , Boys Quotes

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Rain Quotes , Boys Quotes

Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.

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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Athlete Quotes , Boys Quotes