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I have been using Victorinox Cutlery since I was a young man, when my parents gave me a block set to properly equip me for my culinary apprenticeship. — Daniel Humm

When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away. — David Morrissey

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
[Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.] — George Herbert

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale? — Edward Young

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion. — Josh Billings

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. — Terry Pratchett

A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child. — Paul Eluard

That is going to be one pissed off young man when he figures out what you're doing." My chest sank in. "I already feel bad enough. — Jamie McGuire

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me. — James Herriot

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit. — Brigham Young

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. — Augustus

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

WHEN HE WAS a young man Billy Beane could beat anyone at anything. — Michael Lewis

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. — Laurence Olivier

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

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young. — Augustus

Was once on trauma duty when a young man about twenty years old was rolled in, shot in the buttock. — Atul Gawande

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood. — Coolio

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. — Confucius

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old ...
- Wang Lung — Pearl S. Buck

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young. — Erika Lopez

I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer. — Kingsley Amis

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. — Homer

And when the mood took her to fall for the handsome young lawyer Will Bankhead, she happily threw over the man to whom she was already engaged. — Judith Mackrell

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man. — Maggie Young

When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man. — Alain

Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine. — William Carey

Hey, when you love a woman, and when she's this crazy in love with you, you've got to do whatever she says, man. — Arby Robbins

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference. — Dave Mustaine

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man. — Linton Kwesi Johnson

When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous. — Robert Barnes

Lord Rand," Nynaeve snorted. "That young man is growing too big for his breeches. When I get my hand on him, I'll lord him. — Robert Jordan

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.' — Francis Bacon

Old is man when he is born and young, young ever after. — Taliesin

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young. — Charles Mackay

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

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead! — Winston Churchill

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again. — Cesar Chavez

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man. — Henry David Thoreau

When you touch a man's body, he will enjoy the moment, when you touch a man's heart he will remember it forever. — Dixie Waters

When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice. — Charlotte Rampling

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his. — George Dennison Prentice

Be careful, Angel, he says. When you stare at a man like that, he's likely to git any number of number of ... innerestin ideas. — Moira Young

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently. — Jim George

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show. — Angus Young

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy. — Thomas Young

When a young man talks to an old man, it is always a gift. — Avi

I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused. — Miles Davis

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly. — Eugene Ormandy

He says that when asked if he feels like an old man he replies that he does not, he feels like a young man — Wallace Stegner

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues. — William S. Burroughs

When his blue eyes met mine, I inhaled sharply at the raw need in them. "You're stunning," he whispered hoarsely. "No man can possibly deserve you. — Samantha Young

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning. — Saib Tabrizi

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are old and past service. — Plutarch

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to? — Zhuangzi

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man. — Kevin Durant

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. — Placido Domingo

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence. — Jane Roberts

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen. — Bernard-Henri Levy