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village, and it was a long time before I heard the last of it. Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity.
- Ulysses S. Grant
Youth must its ignorant impulse lend-- Age finds place in the rear. All wars are boyish and are fought by boys
- Herman Melville
Oh, boys, don't be sentimental; it's bad for the digestion!
- Herman Melville
But our sole delight was play; and for this we were punished by those who yet themselves were doing the like. But elder folks' idleness is called "business"; that of boys, being really the same, is punished by those elders; and none commiserates either boys or men.
- St. Augustine
The stillness, the solemnity that brooded in the woods, and the sense of loneliness, began to tell upon the spirits of the boys. They fell to thinking. A sort of undefined longing crept upon them. This took dim shape, presently—it was budding home-sickness. Even Finn the Red-Handed was dreaming of his doorsteps and empty hogsheads. But they were all ashamed of their weakness, and none was brave enough to speak his thought.
- Mark Twain
We are fighting to make those dear old places where we had played as children, safe for other boys and girls--fighting for the preservation and safety of all sweet, wholesome things.
- LM Montgomery
Well, Jem was to be a soldier and see a greater battle than had ever been fought in the world; but that was as yet far in the future; and the mother, whose first-born son he was, was wont to look on her boys and thank God that the brave days of old
- LM Montgomery
You'll never have to say that after this, Delilah. I will always love you." "World without end?" "World without end," answered Diana. They kissed each other, as in a rite. Two boys on the fence whooped derisively, but who cared?
- LM Montgomery
Give me a man, for his sons make courageous soldiers while pretty boys can only decorate the dance.
- Euripides
As long as she lives she will never figure out why it is that some boys refuse to see that somebody loves them.
- Alice Hoffman
The mother of boys work son-up to son-down.
- Anonymous
Grandfathers are just antique little boys.
- Anonymous