Young Men

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

    “A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain “Young Men’s Republican Club,” that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “There was a young curate of Kew
    Who kept a tom cat in a pew.
    He taught it to speak
    alphabetical Greek,
    But it never got further than ยต.”
    —Anonymous.

    “Gabriel will come from the water
    With a fish-tail, and talk
    Of wonders that have happened
    On wet roads where men walk....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)