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

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

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

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

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 don't make passes at female smart-asses.

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.

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

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

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

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

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

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

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

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.

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

Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.

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.