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

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

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

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
Sean O'Casey

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

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. Housman

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
John Steinbeck

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

The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, Along the heavy road.
George Robert Sims

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
John Millington Synge

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
Charles Kingsley