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A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.
Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.
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.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and read more
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he read more
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy read more
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable