lad quotes

O he's a ranting roving blade! O he's a brisk and a bonnie lad! Betide what may, my heart isglad To see my lad wi' his white cockade.

-Anonymous
c 'The White Cockade'.

Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, 'Onward!'the sailors cry; Carry the lad that's born to be king Over the sea to Skye.

- Sir Harold Edwin Boulton
  'Skye Boat Song'. The date and authorship of the original song are uncertain, but this is now the most famous version.

There was a lad was born in Kyle, But what na day o' what na style. I doubt it's hardly worth the while To be sae nice wi' Robin.

- Robert Burns
  'There was a lad', or 'Rantin' Rovin' Robin', stanza1.

When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an attorney's firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  HMS Pinafore, act 2.

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.4.

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For manya rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.54.

Then the world seemed none so bad, And I myself a sterling lad; And down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.62.

Our tastesgreatly alter. The lad does not care for the child'srattle, and theoldmandoesnotcarefor theyoung man's whore.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.