#young man

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#interesting #man #misery #mother #nobody

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#exceptions #knows #man #old #old man

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#justice #law #man #young #young man

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#discovered #early #early age #god #i

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#man #old #old man #theory #young

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#bad times #both #celebrated #drinking #famous

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#coat #elbows #hat #his #i

I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man. ↗

— Kim Hunter

#i remember #man #nice #remember #scott

When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous. ↗

— Robert Barnes

#eat #found #i #man #nervous

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#also #could #his #i #life