Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Men are difficult to understand from toddlerhood to old age.
- In plain terms
- No one fully understands boys or men.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept that men remain a mystery.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why are men hard to understand?
Another view
Many people understand men well enough to function.
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