Young Man Quotes - Page 8

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  Men, Color, No Respect

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• Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

  James A. Garfield

  Swimming, Men, Nine

  "Elements of Success". "President Garfield and education. Hiram college memorial". Book compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 331, 1882.

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• Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Fate, Men, Battle

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• A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

  David Lloyd George

  Heart, Men, Young

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

  Richard Gere

  Buddhist, Men, Would Be

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• Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Girl

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Father, School

  Random House Author Q&A. From the Trade Paperback edition, www.randomhouse.com.

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• In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

  David Hackworth

  Men, Order, Rifles

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• No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

  Knut Hamsun

  Fate, Men, Becoming

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

  Tom Hanks

  Men, Play, Two

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• Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.

  Ethan Hawke

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• No young man ever thinks he shall die.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Thinking, Young

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.127

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• If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Travel, Men

  A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).

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• 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

  Jobs, Writing, Holiday

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, "Time Magazine", December 12, 2002.

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• The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mother, Children, Sadness

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• The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Book, Men, Advice

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (2009). “The Path of the Law”, p.35, The Floating Press

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• Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Men, Secret

  Said to a journalist on his 90th birthday, eric.ed.gov. March 08, 1931.

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• Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  A. E. Housman

  Life, War, Lying

  More Poems (1936) no. 36

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• A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Facts, Theory

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  I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Stars, Men

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• And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Girl, Men

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)".

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• I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.

  Hugh Jackman

  Independent, Boys, Men

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• Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

  Henry James

  Men, Ninety Nine, Class

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1147, Delphi Classics

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• I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Weed, Nature, Marijuana

  Jerome K. Jerome (2013). “Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome”, p.369, e-artnow

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