Young Man Quotes
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
Otto Dix
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln
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Go West, young man.
Aaron Burr
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It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
Abu Bakr
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As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
Om Puri
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I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
Samuel Dash
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
Maya Angelou
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A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.
Federica Mogherini
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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
Francis Bacon
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Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.
Coco Chanel
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This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.
Charles Dickens
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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.
Plato
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Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric.
Tom Ridge
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A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."
Arthur Helps
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
William Faulkner
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You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.
Honore de Balzac
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The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.
Arnold Ross
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She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back.
Nicholas Sparks
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When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
Gautama Buddha
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This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.
Anthony Trollope
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The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins.
Billy Kennedy
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There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.
Charles Dickens
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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
Homer