Quotes
Quotes about Boys
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, "Boy, these are good cigars!".
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people and then, when you get invited to the party with the big boys, that is a unique selling point.
Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet, Flag fames in song and story Long may it wave, old glory The flag that has never known defeat.
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
I am fond of children--except boys.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives.
The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl yesterday, she was pregnant. Had her whole belly showin' and ya' know what she had painted on it? "Love Child"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.
I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.
He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore.
I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.
