| Author |
Quotes |
| Allan Beck | A boy is a magical creature--you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. |
| Ambrose Bierce | The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. |
| Ed Howe | When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face. |
| Eric Sevareid | Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something. |
| Gilbert K Chesterton | A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. |
| Henry Miller | Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. |
| Herbert Hoover | The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders. |
| James Thurber | Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. |
| James Thurber | Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. |
| John B S Haldane | A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. |
| Kin Hubbard | Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. |
| Kin Hubbard | There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick. |
| Letty Cottin Pogrebin | Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses. |
| Louis Auchincloss | Only little boys and old men sneer at love. |
| Mark Twain | There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. |
| Plato | Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. |
| Robert Baden Powell | A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. |
| Thomas Campbell Clark | I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. |
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