When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral…

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.

— Gertrude Stein

“Surely the first obligation of a political thinker is to understand the nature of man. The Conservative does not claim special powers of perception…

— Barry M. Goldwater

“Men of conservative temperament have long suspected that one thing leads to another.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if I were…

— Amanda Hocking

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to…

— Andre Dubus

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely…

— Steven Pinker

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

— Paul Gauguin

The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked…

— Brenda Laurel

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice… Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without…

— Hesketh Pearson

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

— Aristotle

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

— Anonymous

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang