Boys will be men. [ Proverb ]
An old man among boys. [ Proverb ]
Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys,
Is jollity for apes and grief for boys. [ William Shakespeare, Cymbeline ]
Strike, brave boys, and take your turns. [ William Shakespeare ]
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport. [ William Shakespeare ]
As waggish boys in games themselves forswear,
So the boy love is perjured everywhere. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]
If you play with boys, you must take boy's play. [ Proverb ]
Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. [ Col. Blacker ]
Boys are boys, and boys occupy themselves with boyish things.
And all labor without any play, boys. Makes Jack a dull boy in the end. [ H. A. Page ]
The boy who uses vulgar words will be shunned by all right-minded boys.
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise. [ Crabbe ]
He that is manned with boys and horsed with colts, shall have his meat eaten and his work undone. [ Proverb ]
I would keep better hours, if I were a boy again; that is I would go to bed earlier than most boys do. [ James Fields ]
Do not then train boys to learning by force and harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. [ Plato ]
I have ventured like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, this many summers in a sea of glory, but far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride at length broke under me. [ Shakespeare ]
Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious business - all who have got a task to do, a work to finish - bear the burden till God gives the signal for repose - till the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned. [ James Hamilton ]
Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them; almost all women; a vast number of clever, hard-headed men. Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are notorious novel readers, as well as young boys and girls, and their kind, tender mothers. [ Thackeray ]
If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, Boy, these are good cigars!
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]