(2292 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
“Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.”
Dan Castellaneta
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“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
“The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother's”
James Matthew Barrie
“For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.”
Alexis Bledel
“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.”
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.”
Clarence Darrow
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it”
C.S. Lewis
