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“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 will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”
Anne Frank
“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
“The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother's”
James Matthew Barrie
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.”
Clarence Darrow
“How tall are you big boy?Six foot nine inches!Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!”
Mae West
“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
“To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.”
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
“The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something,”
Eric Sevareid
“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
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