A boy is a young male human (usually child or adolescent), as contrasted to its female counterpart, girl, or an adult male, a man.
The term "boy" is primarily used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions or both. The latter most commonly applies to adult men, either considered in some way immature or inferior, in a position associated...
Boy
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- Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
- Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.
- I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
- Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
- Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
- What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
- 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.