Young Men

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

“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“How separate and unearthly love is,
Or women are, or what they do,
Or in our young unreal wishes
Seem to be: synthetic, new,
And natureless in ecstasies.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)