Schoolboy Rowe/the War Years 1944%e2%80%931945

Famous quotes containing the words schoolboy, war and/or years:

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

    “The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn’t.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    “Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
    Years and years unto years, till we attain
    To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.”
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)