quotes for a boy

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ~Joe Clark



The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William Wordsworth



The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ~Francis Meehan



All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ~Nicolas Chamfort



A rustle in the wind reminds us a fairy is near. ~Author Unknown



People never notice anything. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 2



The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears. ~John Muir



God made pot. Man made beer. Who do you trust? ~Graffiti



All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. ~Plutarch



What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. ~Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary, 1975



My flag is raised high today. For others to see, sure. But more so to find which way my wind is blowing. Almost time to chart a course. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal - it's also the reason they hate birds. ~K.C. Buffington



To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. ~John Burroughs



If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~Terri Guillemets



As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you. ~Toto As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you. ~Toto



In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced. ~Robert Sexton



Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. ~Josh Billings



It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~Henry David Thoreau



The sky, a perfect empty canvas, offers clouds nonetheless. They shift and drift and beg interpretation... such is the nature of art. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com