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Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

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

Plato
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

Woody Allen, Annie Hall
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

Blake Clark

A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Helen Rowland
(1876 - 1950)

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley
US actor, author, & humorist (1889 - 1945)

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.

John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56
US novelist (1902 - 1968)

My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him.

Norman Lewis Smith

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.

Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Alexandre Dumas
French dramatist & novelist (1802 - 1870)

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
English mathematician & physicist (1642 - 1727)

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Eric Berne
US (Canadian-born) psychologist (1910 - 1970)

A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds.

Joanne K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisinor of Azkaban, Dumbledore

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton
English mathematician & physicist (1642 - 1727)

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley
US actor, author, & humorist (1889 - 1945)

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

Blake Clark

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