Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

A boy is a magical creature—you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.