Source: The Amulet of Samarkand
“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by Rev. James Wood, p. 567
Attributed
“What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very
different things.”
P.G. Wodehouse book Right Ho, Jeeves
Source: Right Ho, Jeeves
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
Song II, st. 1. <br class="br"> Water Babies http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/wtrbs10h.htm (1863)
“Let Cupid smile and the fiend must flee;
Hey and hither, my lad.”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
"Love and Black Magic"
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
“Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”
Guiderius, Act IV, scene ii.
Cymbeline (1610)
Nile Kinnick (1918–1943) College football player
Letter to his younger brother George (July 18, 1938)
“Whoa there, lad! Whoa! Gentle now! Die well, die well.”
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Sergeant Michael Connelly, p. 184
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Sword (1983)
“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Variant: Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Source: The Secret Garden
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
No Direction Home (2005)
Source: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Context: I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere… set out to find… this home that I’d left a while back and couldn’t remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn’t really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so, I’m on my way home, you know?
