"Never send a boy to do a woman's job."
Read quote
8 likes
Boys quotes
Boys
4.6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Boys
Browse quotes that often appear alongside boys — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Boys quotes (page 16 of 231)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."
Read quote
8 likes
"When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells."
Read quote
8 likes
"There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."
Read quote
8 likes
"Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing."
Read quote
8 likes
"Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes."
Read quote
8 likes
"But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions."
Read quote
8 likes
"All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die."
Read quote
8 likes
"... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself."
Read quote
8 likes
"Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules."
Read quote
8 likes
"Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who - well - something of that sort."
Read quote
8 likes
"I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why could boys ask girls out and girls not ask guys out? Why did girls have to shave their legs and guys didn't? Why did society, like, set everything up the way they did? My whole adolescence was full of unanswered whys. Because they never got answered, I just kept lighting fires everywhere - metaphorically speaking."
Read quote
8 likes
"Boys are like purses. You're always gonna have that one boy that you're always comfortable with and you know you'll always kind of like. That's your purse that you wear everywhere. Then you have that gorgeous bag that you want everyone to see you with but the gorgeous bag is usually an asshole or costs a lot of money. Then you have those other purses that you really like but you really don't want to be seen with"
Read quote
8 likes
"I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them."
Read quote
8 likes
"We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking."
Read quote
8 likes
"He pauses when he finishes undoing the last button, then closes his eyes. I can see the pain slashed across his face, and the sight tears at me. The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see."
Read quote
8 likes
"The boy who walks in the light."
Read quote
8 likes
"Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down in any chart."
Read quote
8 likes
"The Venn Diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle."
Read quote
8 likes
"Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue."
Read quote
8 likes