#young man

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

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

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#i #man #saving #serious #very

It well becomes a young man to be modest. ↗

— Plautus

#man #modest #well #young #young man

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#astronomy #cast #correction #doubt #easily

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#choose #comes #competence #elements #hand

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. ↗

— Allan Massie

#civilised #despise #do you know #folk #know

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on. ↗

— William McFee

#getting #grow #his #how #ideas

When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good. ↗

— James McGreevey

#better #calling #citizenship #could #demanded

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#above #assaulting #down #during #fifteen