Young Men Quotes
381 Young Men quotes by 310 unique authors
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What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to…
— Oscar Wilde
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Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't…
— Sebastian Junger
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Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness,…
— Louisa May Alcott
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You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old…
— Brandon Sanderson
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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
— Jane Austen
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We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless…
— Edith Wharton
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Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though we’re unaware…
— Yukio Mishima
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He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the…
— Jim Butcher
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Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white dresses and mourn…
— Patti Smith
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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the…
— Jane Austen
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She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
— Flannery O'Connor
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A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can…
— John Edward Williams
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Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than…
— Brandon Sanderson
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No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men…
— Ken Kesey
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Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on…
— André Aciman
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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 gone,would…
— Amanda Hocking
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That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that…
— Veronica Roth
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You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men fear that there…
— Veronica Roth
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Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our…
— Colin Powell
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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
— Albert Einstein
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My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother…
— Richard P. Feynman
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I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that…
— Samuel Johnson
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