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“Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.”
“Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.”
“Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.”
“Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above―that's where you lived―and then there's London Below―the Underside―inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. Now you're one of them. Good night.”
Source: Neverwhere
“Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God.”
“Young men across the globe have a documented appetite for risky behavior that might predispose them to gambling, especially for large stakes. In the United States, this appetite for risk is augmented by a relative decline in income for all but the top-earning men and by lower rates of enrollment in higher education compared to women. For many, gambling presents a seemingly rational alternative way to try and get rich. The sportsbooks know all this.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.”
“Young men and women - young men and women signed up to serve in the military to fight terrorism. Hillary Clinton went to Washington to get funds to rebuild her city, and protect first responders but Donald Trump was fighting a very different fight. It was a fight to avoid paying taxes so that he wouldn't support the fight against terror.”
“Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.”
“Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.”
“Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“Young men are eager to "hook up" with women. And many say they have very good female friends. But some of the emotions circulating among guys make it difficult to form and sustain healthy relationships.”
“Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays.”
Source: Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
“Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.”
“Young men, come and blow things up.”
Source: Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
“Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of - and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.”
Source: Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity
“Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.”
“Young men especially - I don't know if young women feel much the same - but young men think they are immortal, automatically. They have no idea of time because they have so much energy and I was like that.”
“Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.”
“Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.”
Source: Rhetoric
“Young men have visions, old men have dreams.”
Source: American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America)
“Young men just don't drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island.”
“Young men just don't know what it means to be a man. There are so many lies about what it means to be a man whether that be get a bunch of girls or get a bunch of money or don't cry and don't have emotions. Nobody is teaching them how to be men.”
“Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I'd say this. When a man tells his coworkers he's going to have a child, no one asks him how he'll manage or if he'll be coming back to work.”
“Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it was the city, the cops, the system, the crowd, the music. Anyone but him. Anyone but me.”
Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.”
“Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.”
Source: Letters of Benjamin Jowett
“Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.”
“Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.”
“Young men need a positive influence, especially when they don't have a strong male figure in their lives. They can be influenced by a great, godly man in the church, which gives men a great mission in the church to influence these kids.”
“Young men need to be kept away from guns, bombs, women, cars, hard alcohol and heavy machinery.”
Source: Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
“Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.”
“Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.”
“Young men now want to be caregivers as well as earners so they have joined with women in demanding a different compact at work; they want flex and time for family too.”
“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, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.”
Source: An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus
“Young men preen. Old men scheme.”
“Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.”
“Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.”
Source: Cato: A tragedy in five acts
“Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.”
“Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.”
“Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.”
“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)
“Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!”
Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume
“Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.”
“Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.”
Source: Adventures Among Books (Annotated Edition)
“Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.”