Famous quotes containing the words john boyle, john and/or boyle:
““You gave me the key of your heart, my love;
Then why did you make me knock?”
Oh that was yesterday, saints above!
And last night—I changed the lock!”
—John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890)
“Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be used because it may be a meanes to prevent strokes and blowes, especially in ingenuous and good natured children. [Blows are] the last remedy which a parent can use: a remedy which may doe good when nothing else can.”
—William Gouge, Puritan writer. As quoted in The Rise and Fall of Childhood by C. John Sommerville, ch. 11 (rev. 1990)
“The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.”
—John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890)