poems for boys

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than. ~Oscar Holmolka



I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl



Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ~Don Wilder and Bill Rechin



A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. ~Lord Byron



So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus



El tiempo da buen consejo. ~Proverb



Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~John Wain



Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. ~From the movie An Affair to Remember



Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies. ~Gene Hill



Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo



There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher



Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln



It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. ~Anatole France



A man and his art are like a fool and his king. ~Corri Alius



In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book



Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it. ~Author Unknown



Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears. ~Bobby Jones



When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ~Sacha Guitry, Elles et toi, 1948



The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. ~Author Unknown