Schoolboys Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. — Tom Petty
As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely… — Oscar Wilde
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… — Soren Kierkegaard
Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a… — Leslie Poles Hartley
The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster. — Georg Brandes
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.… — Charles Darwin
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances.… — Daniel Hannan
Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys. — Theodore Roethke
The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life. — Thomas Jefferson
The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as… — Theodore Roosevelt
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. — William Shakespeare
Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas.… — James Joyce
Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong! — Emile Zola
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic… — John Donne
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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