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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. — Samuel Johnson

The boy laughed, for he was a boy and not yet a man. — Jacqueline Winspear

When you're younger you want the boy who knows how to play the game but when you're older you want the man who knows when it's not a game anymore. — Christina Lauren

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. — Cesare Pavese

Brookie was a good boy," she said, "but he did not grow up to be a good man. He had the fatal gift of making people believe him. — Alan Bradley

I have a question for you. When you were a little boy, is this the man you dreamed of becoming? — Michael LaRocca

I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I'm not crying for the man you are," she bit out. "I'm crying for the boy who never had anyone to care. — Jennifer Probst

I'm not a mama's boy or anything. I'm a full-grown man who only occasionally wears diapers (you have to in an EVA suit). — Andy Weir

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man — Mark Twain

Ho! now you strike like the blind man;
t'was the boy that stole your meat,
and you'll beat the post. — William Shakespeare

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me. — Grace Jones

A boy becomes a man when he starts seeing through his heart — Sameh Elsayed

Boy knows much about the layout of the Mongol camp. The older man squeezed Hans's — Neal Stephenson

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen. — Richard Harris Barham

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere. — Jeremy Piven

Besides....... who wants a boy? The only boys in our books are the little baby ones the man hero puts inside the heroine. — Alexa Riley

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. — Thomas Otway

A boy wants to attack something - and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. He wants to whack it into kingdom come. — John Eldredge

This boy, this man was the sun, bright and all-consuming. The animal in me roared to be freed. Elizabeth Bennett whispered, "Go." I went. I — T.J. Klune

I'll teach you how to come with a man inside you. Not a boy, Addison, a man. — Ella Frank

I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart. — Niall Horan

I like a guy who is confident and easy-going, but a man who's a man, not a man who is a little boy. I like a man who is comfortable with himself. — Caroline Winberg

How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different" ... — Robert Reed

There's too much risk in loving,'
the young boy said,
'no,'
said the old man,
'there's too much risk in not. — Atticus Poetry

What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives. — Oriana Fallaci

I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man. — Lori Lansens

I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend. — Tori Amos

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. — Ezra Pound

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man. — J.K. Rowling

We think the feelings that are very serious in a man quite comical in a boy. — Charles Dickens

I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man. — Nora Roberts

The boy I'd ruined had become the man to save me from my oblivion. — A.M. Johnson

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But death and blood was part of what it took to go from boy to man, no matter what my mother had to say about it. — John Hart

I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song. — Gerard Way

If you're not very busy, a grown man in the uniform of a Western Union boy should make you feel a little sick. — Nathanael West

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh? — David Clement-Davies

You went away a little boy in a man's body and you came back the same way, except the man got his hair processed. — Stephen King

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. — Robert Louis Stevenson

How can a man with your heritage not be able to tap-dance." I heard Hawk's gliding chuckle. "My ancestors busy eating missionaries, boy. — Robert B. Parker

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. — Arthur Helps

Sometimes the greatest difference between being a boy and being a man is restraint. — Dave Donovan

The man contains - not the boy - but earlier men — Philip K. Dick

Be a father, if not, why bother, son?
A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one.
If you did it, admit it and stick with it. — Ed O.G.

Do not wait for the tide to take you, my boy. Instead, you take on the tide — Ahmad Ardalan

He cried like a man,not like a boy.Not like he was frustrated or hadn't gotten his way,but like life was bitter.Like his wounds couldn't be healed. — E. Lockhart

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy. — Red Smith

A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings. — Michael Gurian

Everything Man sees he takes for a toy.
Thus is he always, forever a boy. — Jessie Burton

In between levels, he looked at me and asked the question that turns every boy into a man: "Wanna see some boobs?" My time had come. — Tyler Oakley

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy. — Maura Tierney

The boy, a ten-year-old copy of the man... — Billie Letts

When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno. — Johnny Cash

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy. — Thomas Young

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table. — Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. — Helen Rowland

A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind. — Shannon L. Alder

Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. — T. S. Eliot

I will never see my little boy again," she finished. "But I am proud of the man he became. — Christopher G. Nuttall

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently. — Jim George

Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy! — Ralph Jordan

Some people may think I am still young and still a boy but now I feel like I am a man. — Rafael

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future. — Daniel Carter Beard

Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die! — Philip Roth

I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that. — Javier Bardem

Everything that I had in the past has been blown away from the images of tomorrow

This lost little boy has become a lost grown man — Austin V. Songer

A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain — Stephen King

Lee was not just a Bad Boy, a Badass or a Badass Extraordinaire. He was a fucking crazy man. — Kristen Ashley

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate. — New York Times

As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone? — Megan Whalen Turner

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man. — Gertrude Stein

He has come to be the great man he thought he wanted to be. If this is true, then he is not a man. He is still a little boy and wants the moon. — John Steinbeck

It felt forbidden. As though he was a boy when I met him and not a man of 26. — Sasha Bristol

I love the boy you were and the man you have become. — Sarah MacLean

You wonderful boy. You brave, brave man. Let us walk. — J.K. Rowling

This boy - this man - was asking for the moon and the stars. And I was willing to shoot us straight off the map. And offer him the entire universe. — Christina Lee