Best Boys Proverbs
5097 Boys quotes by 2921 unique authors
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Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now
— Alison McGhee
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That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of…
— Bobby Bowden
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As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."
— G. H. Hardy
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It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
— Boris Karloff
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Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.
— Albert Goodwill Spalding
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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse;…
— Joseph Lancaster
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Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said,…
— Harpo Marx
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The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very…
— John Templeton
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We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Boys always like to see girls kiss. I don't get it; girls don't want to see boys kiss.
— Dominique Swain
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I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.
— Maureen O'Hara
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I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.
— Jessica Alba
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That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He…
— Dakota Fanning
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This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from…
— Thomas Frank
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One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come…
— Bennett Cerf
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My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.
— Marie-Antoine Careme
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They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights.
— Mary Virginia Terhune
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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the…
— Bertrand Russell
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These ball boys are marvellous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticed him earlier .
— Max Robertson
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp...
— James Russell Lowell
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Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of…
— John Joseph Griffin
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This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube and titrate it,…
— Frank Robinson
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I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white…
— Kofi Annan
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The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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