Young Men

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

    “When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
    —Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)

    “The Young Man’s Best Companion, The Farrier’s Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash’s Dictionary, and Walkingame’s Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities had done from a furlong of laden shelves.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)