#young man

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

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#army #average #because #bright #business

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#certain #everything #lost #mad #man

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. ↗

— William Temple

#best #company #deserve #distrust #form

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

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. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#include #likely #living #make #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

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#cattle #countryside #fact #father #grew