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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic: Boys

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

John B S Haldane Topic: Boys

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss Topic: Boys

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Kin Hubbard Topic: Boys

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.

Henry Miller Topic: Boys

Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin Topic: Boys

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.

Mark Twain Topic: Boys

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Eric Sevareid Topic: Boys

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Robert Baden Powell Topic: Boys

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 Topic: Boys

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

Kin Hubbard Topic: Boys

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 Topic: Boys

A boy is a magical creature--you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.

Allan Beck Topic: Boys

When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.

Ed Howe Topic: Boys

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

Gilbert K Chesterton Topic: Boys

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.

Ambrose Bierce Topic: Boys

I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

Thomas Campbell Clark Topic: Boys

Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.

Plato Topic: Boys

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.

Herbert Hoover Topic: Boys

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