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Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country. — Jane Austen

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet. — Paul Haggis

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975. — Edward Leigh

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

The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins. — Billy Kennedy

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another. — George Bernard Shaw

Young men have visions, old men have dreams. — Red Smith

Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball. — Billy Kennedy

He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being. — Brigham Young

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. — E. O. Wilson

Come all you thoughtless young men,
a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea. — Patrick O'Brian

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy. — Richard Gere

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. — Richard Ellmann

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men. — Georges Simenon

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar. — Robert Harris

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The soul of man was made to walk the skies. — Edward Young

All men think all men mortal, but themselves. — Edward Young

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. — Susie Orbach

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity. — Brigham Young

Young men are supposed to think themselves immortal, but the subject is not very often out of my mind for a long time together. — C.S. Lewis

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake. — Bennie Thompson

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Two remarkable men
one young, one old
fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On. — Leonard Maltin

If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man. — Michael Bloomberg

It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult. — Mary Harron

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters. — Robert E.Lee

There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination. — John Mellencamp

There are young men of whom it can be said that their countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. — Victor Hugo

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Never had I known a young girl so beautiful and at the same time so gentle and intelligent. Where were her men? Where had they failed? — Charles Bukowski

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. — Logan Pearsall Smith

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does. — Edward Young

The young man must store up, the old man must use. — Seneca The Younger

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. — Stendhal

Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part. — Edward Young

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner. — Francis Bacon

There are young men who want thrills but no longer value sex, so they do completely different things, including aggressive things. — Volkmar Sigusch

When I was young they used to call me 'The Foreman,' not because I was in charge but because I did the work of four men. — Chael Sonnen

Ruth did not approve of young men. So noisy. — Kerry Greenwood

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. — Walter Lippmann

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked. — David Coleman

It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus. — Erin Bow

I never get asked out by men my own age, as they all want to go out with 20-year-olds, and the men that do ask me out are too young. — Marie Helvin

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant. — Perry Brass

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life. — T. S. Eliot

Occasionally, young men, too, were thus violated. They fought like cornered lions. It always took three or four crewmen to subdue one of our boys. — Daniel Black

The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us. — Jim George

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men. — Harold Ramis

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

Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste. — John Heywood

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Patience is the virtue that forges great men. — Chris Vincent

In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me, — Wael Ghonim

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. — Lillian Hellman

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys. — John Eldredge

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue. — Edward Young

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard. — Vera Miles

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

Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to. — Helen Fisher

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. — Henry Adams

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong. — Theodore Roosevelt

We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost. — Ken Lucas

She simply could not imagine lives ending so soon. Oh, you poor young men, she thought wildly. — Paul Russell

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge. — Samuel Richardson

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter. — Mel Gibson

Man wants little, nor that little long. — Edward Young

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were. — Neil Young

Young men, come and blow things up. — Dave Eggers

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue. — David Bowie

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did. — George McGovern

Why will you young men continue to write about things that are so entirely uninteresting as the mentality of adolescents and artists? — Aldous Huxley

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows. — Honore De Balzac

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men. — Niccolo Machiavelli

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

I rarely meet a young man who doesn't already think he is. — Hillary Clinton

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war. — Len Deighton

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

Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young? — Sylvia Day

We lost a young man's life and it begins to represent so many things. — Loretta Lynch

Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not. — Kerry Greenwood

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men. — Catherine Deneuve

God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles! — Michel Faber

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices. — John Arbuthnot

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money. — James Montgomery Bailey

You are quite unnecessary, young man! — Antonin Artaud

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't. — Bear Bryant

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war. — Erica Jong

Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word. — Robin Hobb

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade! — Edward Young

You are A MAN, not just a man; don't be diminished. Live up to your grand potential. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift. — Anton Seidl