Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
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 do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!
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.
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.
Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.
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