“What a wonderful world it is that has boys in it!” -Author Unknown
“A boy is not a sitting-down animal.” -Robert Baden-Powell (Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (born Robert Stephenson Smyth (1857 - 1941)))
“A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.” -Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870))
“When I was a boy, I saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.” -Elvis Presley (Elvis Aron Presley (1935 - 1977))
“A good boy will make a good man.” -Author Unknown: proverb
“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.” -attributed to Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
“A small boy, mischievous to the imp degree.” -Rea Murtha
“A boy is not a sitting-down animal.” -Robert Baden-Powell (Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (born Robert Stephenson Smyth (1857 - 1941)))
“A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.” -Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870))
“When I was a boy, I saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.” -Elvis Presley (Elvis Aron Presley (1935 - 1977))
“A good boy will make a good man.” -Author Unknown: proverb
“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.” -attributed to Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
“A small boy, mischievous to the imp degree.” -Rea Murtha
What a Boy Is Worth
Nobody knows what a boy is worth,
A boy at his work or play;
A boy who whistles around the place
Or laughs in an artless way.
Nobody knows what a boy is worth,
And the world must wait and see,
For every man in an honored place
Is a boy that used to be.
Nobody knows what a boy is worth,
A boy with a face aglow,
For hid in his heart there are secrets deep
Not even the wisest know.
Nobody knows what a boy is worth,
A boy with his bare, shoeless feet,
So have a smile and a kindly word
For every boy you meet.
By Margaret Isabel: “The Challenge”
Nobody knows what a boy is worth,
A boy at his work or play;
A boy who whistles around the place
Or laughs in an artless way.
Nobody knows what a boy is worth,
And the world must wait and see,
For every man in an honored place
Is a boy that used to be.
Nobody knows what a boy is worth,
A boy with a face aglow,
For hid in his heart there are secrets deep
Not even the wisest know.
Nobody knows what a boy is worth,
A boy with his bare, shoeless feet,
So have a smile and a kindly word
For every boy you meet.
By Margaret Isabel: “The Challenge”
“A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.” -Robert Benchley (Robert Charles Benchley (1889 - 1945))
“A boy is naturally full of humor.” -Robert Baden-Powell (Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (born Robert Stephenson Smyth (1857 - 1941)))
“Boy’s natural play is rough and tumble play, it’s the universal play of little boys. And it’s very different from aggression. And we are a society that’s failing to understand the distinction.” -Christina Hoff Sommers (Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born 1950))
“See things from the boy’s point of view.” -Robert Baden-Powell (Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (born Robert Stephenson Smyth (1857 - 1941)))
“When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I’ve accomplished both.” -Graig Nettles (born 1944)
“Loyalty is a feature in a boy’s character that inspires boundless hope.” -Robert Baden-Powell (Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (born Robert Stephenson Smyth (1857 - 1941)))
“A boy is naturally full of humor.” -Robert Baden-Powell (Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (born Robert Stephenson Smyth (1857 - 1941)))
“Boy’s natural play is rough and tumble play, it’s the universal play of little boys. And it’s very different from aggression. And we are a society that’s failing to understand the distinction.” -Christina Hoff Sommers (Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born 1950))
“See things from the boy’s point of view.” -Robert Baden-Powell (Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (born Robert Stephenson Smyth (1857 - 1941)))
“When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I’ve accomplished both.” -Graig Nettles (born 1944)
“Loyalty is a feature in a boy’s character that inspires boundless hope.” -Robert Baden-Powell (Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (born Robert Stephenson Smyth (1857 - 1941)))
“One of the best things in the world to be is a boy, it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.” -Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“I am a little boy but I am going to do something really big in times to come.” -Janaid Jamshed
“As our schools become more feelings centered, risk averse, competition-free, and sedentary, they move further and further from the characteristic sensibilities of boys.” -Christina Hoff Sommers (Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born 1950)): “The War Against Boys” (2000)
“Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.” -Author Unknown
“Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.” -Cyril Connolly
What are little boys made of
What are little boys made of
Snips & snails & puppy dogs tails
And such are little boys made of.
-Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
“A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that’s just one of the risks he takes.” -Adlai Stevenson (Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1900 - 1965)
“Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.” -James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
“Boy: Noise with dirt on it.” -Author Unknown
“Give a boy a dog and you’ve furnished him a playmate.” -Berton Braley (1882 - 1966)
Teddy Bears and Little Cars
When you have a baby boy,
you’re set for the years
of love and joy.
Teddy bears and little cars,
building blocks and bugs in jars.
A world of things
to see and do -
so many good times.
By Author Unknown
Boy’s Life Magazine website: www.BoysLife.org.
“A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.” -Robert Baden-Powell (Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (born Robert Stephenson Smyth (1857 - 1941)))
“A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.” -J. B. S. Haldane (John Burden Sanderson Haldane (1892 - 1964)
“Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.” -Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
“Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” -Abraham Kaplan (1918 - 1993): “The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioral Science” (1964)
“Give a boy a hammer and chisel; show him how to use them; at once he begins to hack the doorposts, to take off the corners of shutter and window frames, until you teach him a better use for them, and how to keep his activity within bounds.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Once a Week” (1868) periodical of London, England
“It’s the merry-hearted boys that make the best men!” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb
“The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.” -Evan Esar (born Esar Levine (1899 - 1995))
“With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane.” -Erma Bombeck (Erma Louise Bombeck (born Erma Louise Fiste (1927 - 1996)))
“Every puppy should have a boy.” -Erma Bombeck (Erma Louise Bombeck (born Erma Louise Fiste (1927 - 1996)))
“Fate has decreed that all lazy boys who come to hate books and schools and teachers and spend all their days with toys and games must sooner or later turn into donkeys.” -C. Collodi (Carlo Collodi (pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini (1826 - 1890))): “The Adventures of Pinocchio” (1885)
“Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.” -Author Unknown: “Pinocchio” (7 February 1940) animation; line of character Blue Fairy (voiced by Evelyn Venable)
The word ‘boy’ has been in recorded use since C.E. 1154 as a descriptive term for a male child. The exact etymology of the word is unclear, but it is believed to have descended from the Anglo-Saxon word ‘boia’ meaning ‘servant’ or ‘farm worker.’
“A boy doesn’t have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn’t like pie when he sees there isn’t enough to go around.” -Edgar W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe (1853 - 1937))
“Every time a boy shows his hands, someone suggests that he wash them.” -Edgar W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe (1853 - 1937)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
In some cultures, boys historically experienced a rite of passage that marked their transition into manhood. Examples of traditional rites of passage include a Bar Mitzvah in Judaism and a vision quest among some Native Americans. In most developed nations around the world today, a boy’s passage into manhood is marked by a mind-and-body-jarring enlistment in the military or employment in a labor-intensive job - for many boys-to-men, the transition from childhood to adulthood is no fun and without celebration. What can you do about this?
“Let us remember that a boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.” -Thomas S. Monson (Thomas Spencer Monson (1927 - 2018))
“What is genius? - It is the power to be a boy again at will.” -James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937)
“Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious business, - all who have got a task to do, a work to finish - bear the burden till God gives the signal for repose - till the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned.” -James Hamilton (1814 - 1871): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brillian Writers” (1895), page 253
“Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!” -George Gordon Noel Byron (also known as Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)): “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Canto II (1812), Stanza 23
Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught
In schools, some graduate of the field or street,
Who shall become a master of the 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.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882): “Possibilities”
We are MFOL! . . . powered by imagination . . .
“I am a little boy but I am going to do something really big in times to come.” -Janaid Jamshed
“As our schools become more feelings centered, risk averse, competition-free, and sedentary, they move further and further from the characteristic sensibilities of boys.” -Christina Hoff Sommers (Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born 1950)): “The War Against Boys” (2000)
“Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.” -Author Unknown
“Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.” -Cyril Connolly
What are little boys made of
What are little boys made of
Snips & snails & puppy dogs tails
And such are little boys made of.
-Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
“A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that’s just one of the risks he takes.” -Adlai Stevenson (Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1900 - 1965)
“Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.” -James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
“Boy: Noise with dirt on it.” -Author Unknown
“Give a boy a dog and you’ve furnished him a playmate.” -Berton Braley (1882 - 1966)
Teddy Bears and Little Cars
When you have a baby boy,
you’re set for the years
of love and joy.
Teddy bears and little cars,
building blocks and bugs in jars.
A world of things
to see and do -
so many good times.
By Author Unknown
Boy’s Life Magazine website: www.BoysLife.org.
“A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.” -Robert Baden-Powell (Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (born Robert Stephenson Smyth (1857 - 1941)))
“A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.” -J. B. S. Haldane (John Burden Sanderson Haldane (1892 - 1964)
“Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.” -Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
“Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” -Abraham Kaplan (1918 - 1993): “The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioral Science” (1964)
“Give a boy a hammer and chisel; show him how to use them; at once he begins to hack the doorposts, to take off the corners of shutter and window frames, until you teach him a better use for them, and how to keep his activity within bounds.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Once a Week” (1868) periodical of London, England
“It’s the merry-hearted boys that make the best men!” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb
“The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.” -Evan Esar (born Esar Levine (1899 - 1995))
“With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane.” -Erma Bombeck (Erma Louise Bombeck (born Erma Louise Fiste (1927 - 1996)))
“Every puppy should have a boy.” -Erma Bombeck (Erma Louise Bombeck (born Erma Louise Fiste (1927 - 1996)))
“Fate has decreed that all lazy boys who come to hate books and schools and teachers and spend all their days with toys and games must sooner or later turn into donkeys.” -C. Collodi (Carlo Collodi (pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini (1826 - 1890))): “The Adventures of Pinocchio” (1885)
“Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.” -Author Unknown: “Pinocchio” (7 February 1940) animation; line of character Blue Fairy (voiced by Evelyn Venable)
The word ‘boy’ has been in recorded use since C.E. 1154 as a descriptive term for a male child. The exact etymology of the word is unclear, but it is believed to have descended from the Anglo-Saxon word ‘boia’ meaning ‘servant’ or ‘farm worker.’
“A boy doesn’t have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn’t like pie when he sees there isn’t enough to go around.” -Edgar W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe (1853 - 1937))
“Every time a boy shows his hands, someone suggests that he wash them.” -Edgar W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe (1853 - 1937)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
In some cultures, boys historically experienced a rite of passage that marked their transition into manhood. Examples of traditional rites of passage include a Bar Mitzvah in Judaism and a vision quest among some Native Americans. In most developed nations around the world today, a boy’s passage into manhood is marked by a mind-and-body-jarring enlistment in the military or employment in a labor-intensive job - for many boys-to-men, the transition from childhood to adulthood is no fun and without celebration. What can you do about this?
“Let us remember that a boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.” -Thomas S. Monson (Thomas Spencer Monson (1927 - 2018))
“What is genius? - It is the power to be a boy again at will.” -James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937)
“Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious business, - all who have got a task to do, a work to finish - bear the burden till God gives the signal for repose - till the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned.” -James Hamilton (1814 - 1871): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brillian Writers” (1895), page 253
“Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!” -George Gordon Noel Byron (also known as Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)): “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Canto II (1812), Stanza 23
Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught
In schools, some graduate of the field or street,
Who shall become a master of the 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.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882): “Possibilities”
We are MFOL! . . . powered by imagination . . .
