(2291 quotes found)
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“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 frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.”
Kirsten Dunst
“A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man --the one he used to be.”
Cesare Pavese
“Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”
Anne Frank
“For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.”
Alexis Bledel
“To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.”
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
“The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man. Let's see. Don't tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you're sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do.”
Dan Castellaneta
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother's”
James Matthew Barrie
