Boys Quotes

We think boys are rude, unsensitive animals but it is not so in all cases. Each boy has one or two sensitive spots, and if you can find out where they are located you have only to touch them and you can scorch him as with fire.

The typical tale was of a student greatly interested in this or that branch of learning – and baffled in his attempts to master it by the incompetence of his instructor. Such evidence is hard to dispose of, for as philosophers observed long ago, a boy’s judgement of a man is apt to be pretty […]

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of school.

I don’t think the boy of lively mind is hurt much by going to college. If he encounters mainly jackasses, then he learns the useful lesson that this is a jackass world.

At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.

I can’t imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind. For even the good ones are manned chiefly by third-rate men, and any boy of sharp wits is sure to penetrate to their inferiority almost instantly. Men can fool […]

What are little boys made of, made of? What are little boys made of? Snips and snails, and puppy dogs tails; And that’s what little boys are made of, made of.

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a boy.

Sometimes is never quite enough, If you’re flawless, then you’ll win my love. Don’t forget to win first place. Don’t forget to keep that smile on your face. Be a good boy. Try a little harder. You’ve got to measure up And make me prouder. How long before you screw it up? How many times […]