One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Young men need to be kept away from guns, bombs, women, cars, hard alcohol and heavy machinery.” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.” — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war. — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“God gave these four young men knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature and wisdom. Daniel also understood visions and dreams … — Ted Cabal Copy Share Image
In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they… — Lydia Maria Francis Child Copy Share Image
“I believe . . . that if our country ever comes into trial again, young men will spring up equal to the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“Want of courage is the last thing to be pardoned by young men, who usually look upon bravery as the chief of… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Oh, no. A story. This was perhaps too maudlin and too much for the early hour, but handsome and heart-broken young men… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I do occasionally wonder, if you were to bring to life one of those young men who sacrificed themselves in what was… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
“Like a certain philosopher I would, upon my soul, have all young men from eighteen to twenty-five kept under barrels; seeing how… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“So, for many young men in South Africa’s townships, freedom looks like this: Every morning they wake up, maybe their parents go… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Sex and its nature might well attract doctors and biologists; but what was surprising and difficult of explanation was the fact that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is… — Caitriona Balfe Copy Share Image
“All this had already given us an inkling of what the new regime was about. There was still some hope, however. There… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“ The Scholars "Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“These groups [of disaffected youth] are not small, and they will grow larger. Certainly they are suffering. Demonstrably they are not getting… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“-when he thinks of the starry-eyed puerility and narcissism of these fantasies now, a rough decade later, Schmidt experiences a kind of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“The most interesting aspects of the story lie between the two extremes of coercion and popularity. It might be instructive to consider… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“The sin of Book I is at first sight more obscure, but it is particularly significant. We have seen that there appear… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“All other trades are contained in that of war. Is that why war endures? No. It endures because young men love it… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“A respectable old man gives the following sensible account of the method he pursued when educating his daughter. "I endeavoured to give… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image