I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

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

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

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he read more

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months read more

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, read more

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? read more

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.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and read more

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.