Young Men

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

“I see advertisements for active young men, as if activity were the whole of a young man’s capital. Yet I have been surprised when one has with confidence proposed to me, a grown man, to embark in some enterprise of his, as if I had absolutely nothing to do, my life having been a complete failure hitherto. What a doubtful compliment this to pay me!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Hit’s growin, stark and heich,
derk and straucht and sinister,
kirkyairdie-like and dreich.
But whaur’s the Minister?”
—Douglas Young (1913–1973)

“An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)