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Boys Quotes by Mark Twain
- The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one…
- It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.
- As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come…
- I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly…
- I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed…
- I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!
- The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting
- As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not…
- George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
- But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to…
- When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I…
- In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man
- in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
- There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
- A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away…
- Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing…
- Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his…
- We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter…
- We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it…
- When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
- There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure
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- The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. — Robert Baden-Powell
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