Young Men Quotes

381 Young Men quotes by 310 unique authors

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future. — Boyd K. Packer
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with… — Walt Whitman
Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. — Christopher Morley
Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires… — Walker Percy
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot. — Oscar Wilde
Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast… — J C Ryle
You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he… — Rick Riordan
Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from… — Mitch Albom
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as… — Joyce Carol Oates
There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and… — Wilkie Collins
Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping… — John Fowles
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war. — Kurt Vonnegut
…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the… — John Updike
What? Is that boy crazy?" "Most young men his age are somewhat crazy, I think," Sazed said with a smile. "However, this is hardly unexpected.… — Brandon Sanderson
They all looked like a shampoo commercial, healthy and clear-skinned, perfectly proportioned, a group of handsome young men. Their clothes hung on them like they… — Lilith Saintcrow
Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and… — Sebastian Junger
Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of?… — Dodie Smith
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really… — Andrew Lang
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young. — A. E. Housman
Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back. — Cameron Dokey
Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization… — W. E. B. Du Bois
That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk.… — David Benioff
What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague… — George MacDonald

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