Boy

“Speak roughly to your little boy,Because he knows it teases.”

“Better build schoolrooms for "the boy"Than cells and gibbets for "the man."”

“Mad about the boy,There may be something sad about the boy.”

“You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy.To be a soaring human boy!”

“When boys go first to bed,They step into their voluntary graves.”

“When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.”

“Boys believe nothing can hurt them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.”

“What boy does not wish to find secret powers hidden in himself?”

“No one has the right to make a boy learn Latin, because learning is a matter for individual choice; but if in a Latin class, a boy fools all the time, the class should throw him out, because he interferes with the freedom of others.”

“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 now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty; they should be made to feel that nothing gives one human being rights over another, and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.”

“I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.”

“Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games.”

“The senshi are very sexy, and boys like it. In Japan, moreover, boys are quite weak and they search for a strong partner. They want to be dominated, and the senshi are ready to do it.”

“Maybe what a lot of authors don't understand is the masochistic component of boys. They write love stories that are now outdated.”