#young men

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? ↗

— Marsilio Ficino

#attractiveness #bar #bribes #feet #highest

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#anything #busy #cambridge #educating #men

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#arab world #behave #behavior #certain #influence

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#also #authority #become #body #controls

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#far #felicity #imagine #men #more

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#men #promise #young #young men

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?' ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#campuses #career #combine #family #get

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him? ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#because #burden #eighteen #especially #family

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#civilization #discussing #emotional #fact #friendly

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time. ↗

— David Hackworth

#alive #boots #drill #fists #i