Young Men

Famous quotes containing the words young men, young and/or men:

“And Cumhal saw like a drifting smoke
All manner of blessed souls,
Women and children, young men with books,
And old men with croziers and stoles.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron- clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life’s sacred spontaneity. They can’t trust life until they can control it.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)