Schoolboy

Famous quotes containing the word schoolboy:

    Thus to him, to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and it proceed from one root; one is leaf and one is flower; relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein. And what is that root? Is not that the soul of his soul?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
    That all sin is divided into two parts.
    One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very
    important,
    Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

    It was the schoolboy who said, “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.”
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)