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A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. – A. C. Benson
I never reprimand a boy in the evening-darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination. – Frank L. Boyden
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. – Herbert Hoover
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. – Lewis Blaine Hershey
If you're at a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, 'Boy, these are good cigars' – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Stuart Would ya look at the size of that kid's head It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system Looks like an orange on a toothpick I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik spherical but quite pointy at parts He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow. – So I Married an Axe Murderer
Carter Don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy You can do that in China but you can get your ass killed out here, man. – Rush Hour
...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. – Robert Charles Benchley
A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. – Robert Benchley
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. – Robert Benchley
A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad – Alan Marshall Beck
A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds. – Joanne K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisinor of Azkaban, Dumbledore
A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two. – Richard Kehl
A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man. – James Kelly
A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. – Jack Benny
After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do. – John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. – John Bay
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. – Blake Clark
Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. – Alan Marshall Beck
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy. – William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short. – Jeff Melvoin
Frank Blue you're my boy – Old School

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