"A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys."

-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom Quotes #Boys Quotes #Likes Quotes

“While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.”
“I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.”
“Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs, and every song recalls a thousand sorrows, and so they are infinite in number, and all the same.”
“I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.”
“Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places which count an fish each cast out instead of lifting it prematurely”
“I have never been much of a painter.”
“A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.”
“Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.”

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