Quotes About Youth

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

When young men prepare, bless, and pass the sacrament in worthiness and reverence, they literally follow the example of the Savior at the Last Supper and become like Him.

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.