Schoolboy

Famous quotes containing the word schoolboy:

“On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

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