Lad Quotes (2 quotes)
[My brother] Neville always got things to add to his Meccano set for Christmas. Nowadays there are such wonderful things for kids, but in those days Meccano was a real novelty, because you could make something that really worked. There were little screws with square bits that went on the end, and tiny screwdrivers. They were beautiful things. Every lad had Meccano in those days. Your father bought you the number one, number two, number three—whichever you hadn’t got. One year Neville got one that made a steam engine, so that when the wheel went round it moved along. And my father would help him to build it—never mind breakfast, they just wanted to get down to building the Meccano.
In Thora Hird’s Book of Bygones (1998), 35-36.
The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from growing and his mind from developing just as surely as the iron shoe does the foot of the Chinese girl.
In Hudson Maxim and Clifton Johnson, 'Smoking, Swearing, and Perfumery', Hudson Maxim: Reminiscences and Comments (1924), 234. The quote is as reported by Clifton Johnson, based on interviews with Hudson Maxim.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
