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  • Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. -- A. E. Housman
  • Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day. -- Charles Kingsley
  • They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World. -- John Millington Synge
  • Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. -- John Steinbeck
  • A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. -- Emily Bronte
  • Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. -- E. B. White
  • Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. -- Jules Verne
  • The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. -- A. E. Housman
  • I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more. -- Richard Branson
  • Being a lad is what I'm about. -- Liam Gallagher
  • That lad must have been born offside. -- Alex Ferguson
  • So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts! -- Dr. Seuss
  • The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that. -- George R. R. Martin
  • We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them. -- Jennifer Donnelly
  • I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad. -- Mr. T
  • I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England. -- Jamie Bell
  • Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him. -- Jamie Redknapp
  • My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him. -- Les Dawson
  • I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries. -- Alex Ferguson
  • Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then. -- Wayne Rooney
  • They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old. -- A. E. Housman
  • Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really. -- Robbie Williams
  • When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'People' magazine thought I was sexy!' -- Gerard Butler
  • Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep. -- A. E. Housman
  • There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before. -- John Bonham
  • I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine. -- Elize Du Toit
  • For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not. -- Tony Iommi
  • Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. -- Stephen Graham
  • At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard. -- Emun Elliott
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  • Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital. -- John Henry Carver
  • Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night. -- Alexander Pope
  • The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day. -- Charles Kingsley
  • When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied. -- Dan Jenkins
  • Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime. -- Annie Besant
  • As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily. -- Sid Waddell
  • I'm a working class lad. -- Rob James-Collier
  • I'm running out of words to describe this lad. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
  • I'm just a normal young lad who plays football. -- Wayne Rooney
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  • He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet. -- Chris Waddle
  • Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor mortals mad! -- William Shakespeare
  • Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young. -- Lawrence Block
  • Who can live in heart so glad As the merry country lad? -- Nicholas Breton
  • Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it. -- Jonathan Stroud
  • I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England. -- Jamie Bell
  • The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes. -- Steve Coppell
  • Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it. -- Nancy Farmer
  • If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung. -- Tommy Docherty
  • If it be sin to love a lovely lad Oh there sin I. -- Richard Barnfield
  • The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too. -- Tim Powers
  • Stefan shook his head. Th' lad's got guts , he thought. Not much sense, but guts. -- Tamora Pierce
  • Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowinâ?? me lawn and killinâ?? what Brits come around. -- Kevin Hearne
  • Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes -- Bobby Robson
  • What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things. -- P. G. Wodehouse
  • We had a word with him about diving and since then the lad's come on leaps and bounds. -- Billy Dodds
  • Being a lad is what I'm about. I can tell you who isn't a lad - anyone from Blur. -- Liam Gallagher
  • One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble. -- Terry Pratchett
  • A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. -- William Nicholson
  • Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are. -- David Gemmell
  • June suns, you cannot store themTo warm the winter's cold,The lad that hopes for heavenShall fill his mouth with mould. -- A. E. Housman
  • When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor. -- Sean Harris
  • With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad. -- A. E. Housman
  • Courage for the big troubles in life, lad' he'd say, 'and patience for the small. Be of good cheer. God is awake. -- Louisa Young
  • So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie -- Diana Gabaldon
  • There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried. -- Ken Kesey
  • Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics. -- Josh Helman
  • The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • When you find the one, my lad, grab her up in your arms and never let her go. You may never get another chance. -- Gaelen Foley
  • A sturdy lad . . . who teams it, farms it . . . and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. -- Marsilio Ficino
  • I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across the country and see those wide open spaces. -- Charlie Cox
  • If Harry Potter's so magical, why cant he cure his own eyesight and get laid. A teenage lad shouldnt need a broomstick to cling onto. -- Frankie Boyle
  • Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself-a lad of about 19 -- E. B. White
  • The sort of lad I am looking for is a kid who will nutmeg Kevin Keegan in training, then step aside him in the corridor -- Bob Paisley
  • Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life. -- Brandon Sanderson
  • Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth. -- Jules Verne
  • A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
  • I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back. -- Sarah Hall
  • Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld. -- Kami Garcia
  • I ve got a boot boy from the Youth team. His name s Kudos - he s a good lad and has been looking after me for a few years. -- Peter Crouch
  • Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad. -- William Shakespeare
  • Although I fancy Britney, I think Shakira is hot too. Maybe I could let them fight over me. I'm a young lad and I've got to keep my options open. -- Gareth Gates
  • What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town? -- Christopher Moore
  • A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown. -- William Butler Yeats
  • As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it. -- Howard Thompson
  • In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth. -- John Caudwell
  • Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency? -- Joseph N. Welch
  • Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had. -- Edgar Guest
  • This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all. -- James Michael Pratt
  • This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all. -- James Michael Pratt
  • I have declared that I will work free of cost with those composers who are passionate about their work. Sohail Sen is one such lad, whose music in Banjaara has been liked a lot. -- Sukhwinder Singh
  • The lad is surprisingly strong and can turn a game with his incredible acceleration before applying a world-class finish. You can't kick Messi out of a game- he rides tackles like a thoroughbred horse. -- Osvaldo Ardiles
  • I guess music is just something I've kind of always done. I never really thought too much about it, it was just another way to create, and I did it as a pretty young lad. -- BÃ?RNS
  • He's a nice young lad. I'll keep putting him on ... as long as he doesn't tell me any lies. He's back focused and it's great to see. Let's hope he keeps going on from that. -- Lee Freedman
  • If I wore a low-cut dress or showed my cleavage or did lad's mags, people would make such a big deal. That has stopped me from doing it, but I would if it felt right. -- Konnie Huq
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