Boys Quotes - Page 2

• Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

  Charles Lamb

  People, Way, Mates

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.58

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• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  Frances McDormand

  Trust, Looking For Love, Looking Good

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• 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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Mother, Technology, Long

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• It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Girl, Men, Promise

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• Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

  Ashley Montagu

  Girl, Irritation, Causes

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

  E. W. Howe

  Faces

  "Travel Letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 120, 1913.

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• The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Failure, Winning

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Son, Men, Boyhood

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• See things from the boy's point of view.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Views, Point Of View

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.276, Pan Macmillan

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• What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

  Princess Diana

  Family, Daddy, Littles

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• Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Son, Matter

  "The Dolly Dialogues". Book by Anthony Hope, 1893.

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Humorous, Maturity, Men

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• One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Years, Birth Control, Comedy

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• For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

  Alexis Bledel

  Facts, Bad Boy, Jerk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  John B. S. Haldane

  Inspirational, Thank You, Children

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Aggravation, Literature, Young

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• Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Play, Weapons, Should

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• Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Soccer, Football

  Quoted in Alvin Redman The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (1952).

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• The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Age, Mediocrity, Temples

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• Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Play, Lucky, Casinos

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• Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

  Agnes Smedley

  Girl, Fighting, Men

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• I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Teacher, Father, School

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• I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

  Sammy Hagar

  Thinking, Keith, Want

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• Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one

  Robert Benchley

  Mother, Dog, Animal

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• I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Introvert, Introverted

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