#young man

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

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

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#boy #growing #growing up #having #listen

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#compelled #happen #man #nine #out

It well becomes a young man to be modest. ↗

— Plautus

#man #modest #well #young #young man

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#ago #collected #court #down #during

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

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

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

— Joe Namath

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