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> [Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/boyhood-is-the-longest-time-in-life-for-a-boy-the-last-term-of-the/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/305/booth-tarkington-14355_boyhood_boyhood-is-the-longest-time-in-life-for_892070.jpg)

## More by Booth Tarkington

> [An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/an-ideal-wife-is-any-woman-who-has-an-ideal-husband/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/the-only-good-in-pretending-is-the-fun-we-get-out-of-fooling/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/gossip-is-never-fatal-until-it-is-denied-gossip-goes-on-about-every/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/take-your-work-seriously-but-never-take-yourself-seriously-and-do-not/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/youth-cannot-imagine-romance-apart-from-youth/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/arguments-only-confirm-people-in-their-own-opinions/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [“My wife says Ambersons don’t make lettuce salad the way other people do; they don’t chop it up with sugar and vinegar at all.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/my-wife-says-ambersons-don-t-make-lettuce-salad-the-way-other-people/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/the-only-safe-male-rebuke-to-a-scornful-female-is-to-stay-away-from/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/some-day-the-laws-of-glamour-must-be-discovered-because-they-are-so/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/mystics-always-hope-that-science-will-some-day-overtake-them/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/the-understanding-smile-of-an-old-wife-to-her-husband-is-one-of-the/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [“Thus began the Great Tar Fight...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/thus-began-the-great-tar-fight/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/boyhood-is-the-longest-time-in-life-for-a-boy-the-last-term-of-the/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [“In the days before deathly contrivances hustled them through their lives, and when they had no telephones- they had time for everything: time to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/in-the-days-before-deathly-contrivances-hustled-them-through-their/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

> [“So far as Alice was concerned Russell might have worn a placard,'Engaged'. She looked upon him as diners entering a restaurant look upon tables…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booth-tarkington/so-far-as-alice-was-concerned-russell-might-have-worn-a-placard/)

[Booth Tarkington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booth-tarkington/)

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