Keyword: Boys

For boys, puberty is like turning into the Incredible Hulk… but very, very slowly.

(1966 – ) English comedian

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

(1917 – 1994) American writer

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.

(1829 – 1900) American essayist & novelist

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

It’s a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to stray, worm-riddled dogs, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a kid with bronchitis and pick his nose and eat it on a regular basis, yet won’t sit next to his sister because of ‘Girl Germs.’

(1958 – ) Australian author

A boy becomes a man when he stops asking his father for an allowance and requests a loan.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

The ambition of every small boy is to wash his mother’s ears.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

(427 BC – 347 BC) Greek author & philosopher

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

In order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

I am fond of children (except boys).

(1832 – 1898) English author, mathematician, logician & photographer