Young Man Quotes

562 Young Man quotes by 456 unique authors

Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's… — Liam Neeson
The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young… — Joyce Carol Oates
It well becomes a young man to be modest. — Plautus
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. — John D. Rockefeller
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. — Andy Rooney
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. — George Santayana
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse… — Stendhal
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term. — Gene Tierney
As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no… — Pete Townshend
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. — Anthony Trollope
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he… — Desmond Tutu
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. — John Updike
As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a… — Harvey Weinstein
People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git. — Paul Weller
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. — Walt Whitman
A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing. — Thomas Wolfe
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. — Brigham Young
By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in… — Ravi Zacharias
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing… — Bill Hicks
Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you… — Euripides
Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a… — Spencer W. Kimball
I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position… — Neil Gaiman
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John von Neumann
Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it,… — Etgar Keret

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