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"And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death."
"Boy, the things I do for England."
"Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, "Son, it looks like you don't have a home anymore." The little boy promptly answered, "Oh, yes, we have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in.""
"I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man."
"With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane."
"A boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers. They met by accident."
"Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price."
"If boys don't learn, men won't know."
"The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity; the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium."
"I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys."
"Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be."
"Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her."
"There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine."
"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, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me."
"Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain."
"A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy."
"Playing for Arsenal at any level is something to be proud of so being in the squad when they won the double and winning the Cup in 1979 was special. The boys were a terrific bunch."
"John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil."
"Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him."
"It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something."
