#young man

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. ↗

— John Updike

#goes #man #middle-aged #middle-aged man #off

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#far #i #man #possessing #range

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#dangerous place #man #most #oxford #place

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#employment #following #hero #man #may

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#befall #entrenched #fate #man #negation

As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#add #anything #cover #feel #interviewing

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#exceptions #knows #man #old #old man

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#justice #law #man #young #young man

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#discovered #early #early age #god #i

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