"Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls."

Hawkins, Anthony Hope on adolescence
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school."

Sedgwick, Henry on society   

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it."

Darrow, Clarence on president   

"Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living."

Williams, Carey on youth   

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

Haldane, John B. S. on boys
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"Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding."

Kalan on nature
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"Don't wait to be a great man -- be a great boy."

Unknown, Source on example
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"A boy's story is the best that is ever told."

Dickens, Charles on youth
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"A good man dies when a boy goes wrong."

Unknown, Source on death   

"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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on boys   

"A minister asked a little boy how to get to the Post Office. After the little boy told him, the minister said, Why don't you come to church tonight? I'm giving instructions on how to get to heaven. After thinking a minute, the boy replied, I don't think so. You don't even know how to get to the Post Office."

Unknown, Source on preachers and preaching   

"When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?"

Levenson, Samuel on freedom
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"Nobody knows what a boy is worth. We'll have to wait and see. But every man in a noble place a boy once used to be."

Unknown, Source on worth
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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