Famous quotes containing the words young men, young and/or men:
“The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“Patty was a modest maid;
Patty was of men afraid:
Patty grew her fears to lose,
And grew so brave, she lost her nose.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)