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Letter "B" » Boys Will Be Boys
«If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives the plough to know more of the scriptures than you do»
Author: William Tyndale
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Boys Will Be Boys, drives, plough, scriptures, spare, The Plough
«Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.»
«Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
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aged, boys, Boys Will Be Boys, middle-aged, middle-aged man
«A father . . . knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
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arrested, arresting, arrests, boys, Boys Will Be Boys, daughter, deprave, depraved, depraves, Keep On Running, mall, malls, owned, run over, The Father, The Mall
«If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.»
«Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.»
«What is genius?- It is the power to be a boy again at will»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
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at will, boy, Boys Will Be Boys, genius, The Power, This Boy
«What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
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Boys Will Be Boys, but then, childhood, disappears, From Zero, painter, precocious, Real Genius, The Genius, This Boy, trace, zero
«Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Boys Will Be Boys, cries, hug, insist, modesty, respect to, sets, The Children
«Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
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boys, Boys and Girls, Boys Will Be Boys, India, lessons, shooting, target
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