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 lady of Ryde
Who was carried far out by the tide.
Cried a man-eating shark,
“How’s this for a lark?
I knew that the Lord would provide.””
—Anonymous.

“Young fellows are tempted by girls, men who are thirty years old are tempted by gold, when they are forty years old they are tempted by honor and glory, and those who are sixty years old say to themselves, “What a pious man I have become.””
—Martin Luther (1483–1546)