Learn Through Quotations

“A boy is a magical creature-you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.”

“Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.”

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

“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 will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.”

“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.”

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

“The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven.”

“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.”

“A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.”

“The spirit is there in every boy, it has to be discovered and brought to light.”

“No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.”

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

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

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

“One boy is worth half a man. Two boys are worth half a boy. Three boys are no help at all.”

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

“Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.”

“A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.”

“Inside every hardened criminal beats the heart of a ten-year-old boy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother's.”

“One of the best things in the world to be is a boy, it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.”