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“Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.”

Men Sometimes Pain Young Pride Fool Bears Young Man Foolishness Badges

Author:Robert Jordan

“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.”

Men Young Car Fool Young Man Impetuous

Author:Robert Jordan

“War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.”

Thinking Men War Young Strong Causes Fool Machines Killing Excuse Young Man Ingenuity Diseased Beastly

Book:Company parade

Source: Company parade

“Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.”

Thinking Knows Men Age Young Human Nature Youth Fool Young Man Folly Old Man

Author:George Chapman

“I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.”

Men Believe School Young I Believe Fool Ordinary Young Man Ordinary Life Schooled Schools And Education

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)

“It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!”

People Men World Giving Enough Young Universe Behinds Brain Theory Fool Shapes Give Me Sake Stupidity Young Man Scream Pills Jars Forlorn Insensible Incongruity

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.”

Men Young Laughing Fool Young Man Fierce Savages Older Man

Author:George Santayana

“It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.”

Men Wells May Done Lasts Young Race Class Share Fool Young Man Repeats Old Man

Book:The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

“My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.”

Men Young Pay Blood Fool Regard Young Man High Prices

Book:The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy: Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic

Source: The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy: Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic

“In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that the Fool will fall. But we don't see it happen, and a Fool doesn't know that he's subject to the laws of gravity. Against all odds, he just might float.”

People Knows Men Might Happens Law Young Fall Steps Air Subjects Fool Empty Assuming Young Man Gravity Odds Floats Cliffs Deck Tarot Against All Odds

Book:Butcher Bird

Source: Butcher Bird