#young man

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

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things. ↗

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

The basic equation that mystified me as a young man was looking at guys who could actually get girls. I was always amazed, because they never seemed to care. I was like, 'How do they do that?' ↗

— Andy Richter

#always #amazed #basic #because #care

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#credit #establish #important #important thing #man

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#discovered #his #idea #just #man

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people. ↗

— Robert Kiyosaki

#country #give #his #lead #life

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#blinds #deep #difficult #event #experience

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#casualty #come #compliments #course #embarrassing

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#great power #himself #his #interest #ivy

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