quotes about girls and boys

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty. ~William Lecky



To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. ~Oscar Wilde



A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. ~Victor Hugo



Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. ~Jean de La Fontaine



We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993



Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ~Albert Schweitzer



Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take. ~Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point, 1982



The departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow. ~Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, Other Shore



Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb



The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938



He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. ~Author Unknown



The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J.B. Priestley



When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Cunning," Essays



Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. ~Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986



Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ~Peter Ustinov



Death and dice level all distinction. ~Samuel Foote, The Minor



Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbe Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928