Top 100 Younger Man Quotes
#1. He wanted to come along, said the one in the corner, the only one who hadn't yet tried to kill Phillip. Phillip decided he liked this one best, especially when he wrapped his hand around Gregory's forearm to prevent the younger man from launching himself at Eloise. Which,
Julia Quinn
#2. I'm sober."
"That's not my concern. I know you'll never make that mistake again."
"Then what's your concern?" the younger man asked, his tone aggressive.
"You and her.
Erika Johansen
#3. If there is a God he hasn't been paying attention. He should retire and hand over to a younger man, because he's making a real bollocks of everything.
Lemmy Kilmister
#4. I will say that I wasn't susceptible to Tony Robbins-like pitches, even as a younger man.
Andy Kindler
#5. When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.
William J. Clinton
#6. My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'
Prince William
#7. When I was a younger man - two wives ago, 250,000 cigarettes ago, 3,000 quarts of booze ago ...
Kurt Vonnegut
#8. Son, can you play me a memory. I'm not really sure how it goes. It was sad and it was sweet and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.
Billy Joel
#9. What would you say, Harry, if I told you that I had murdered Basil? said the younger man. He watched him intently after he had spoken.
Oscar Wilde
#10. I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
Randy Houser
#11. I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl.
Demi Moore
#12. The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man's own gift of speed against him.
Geraldine Brooks
#13. Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#14. I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.
Rob Lowe
#15. Hello?"
"How's it going?" Dane asked.
I relaxed at the familiar voice. "I'm having a fling with a younger man," I told him. "He's kind of short for me, and there's a little incontinence problem ... but we're working to get beyond all that.
Lisa Kleypas
#16. Zachary's partner, a younger man with a moustache named Freedly - Well, no. The man was named Freedly. Zachary's partner, a younger man named Freedly with a moustache - Zachary's partner, a moustached younger man named Freedly - Freedly said, "Have you got the ring on you?
Donald E. Westlake
#17. As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.
James A. Michener
#18. If a man stands before a mirror and sees in it his reflection, what he sees is not a true reproduction of himself but a picture of himself when he was a younger man
Flann O'Brien
#19. What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
Candace Bushnell
#20. She fingered the card and looked at the younger man. "James Edward, did you offer the man a cool drink?" James Edward said, "You want a Scrapple?
Robert Crais
#21. I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore ... like, none.
Henry Rollins
#22. On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.
Bruce Forsyth
#23. What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#24. Sleeping with a man half your age can be exhausting, but if it's too much for him you can always find a younger man.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#25. It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.
Steve Martin
#26. I tell you, if I'm going to go through a divorce, I would date again a younger man. Because I have so much energy, there's no way an older man can keep up with me.
Ivana Trump
#27. I never felt that my life was not complete without a child. I don't know if that, as a younger man, I'd have had full appreciation for it.
Kyle MacLachlan
#28. The younger man sitting next to her, her son perhaps, who looked to be in his forties, had a bar code tattooed on the back of his tanned neck, as if he were a supermarket product.
Liane Moriarty
#29. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. 'The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl,
Gregory David Roberts
#30. In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.
Nas
#32. In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.
Mark Skousen
#33. What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Seneca The Younger
#34. When I got the episode where Spider-Man meets Aunt May (voiced by Misty Lee), it was another one of those things where I was like, "I can't believe I have a scene with Aunt May. That's just amazing to me." And they drew her a lot younger and hotter then the Aunt May that I remember.
Clark Gregg
#35. Prostitution was illegal in Kenya and was culturally a taboo. But what was a young orphaned girl with little education to do when she had to fend for three of her younger siblings? As she watched the waves hit the shores, she noticed a young handsome man staring at her from a distance.
Nya Wampaze
#37. I'm not an ageist, and I'm not looking for a man in a certain restrictive age range, however I've found over the years that people younger than me tend to be immature. The problem with this is that, as I get older, all the good men have already been snapped up.
Brett Kiellerop-Morris
#40. Sorry," a half-gestured apology as the man, ten years younger than George (who was thirty-seven), disappeared
Philip J. Gould
#41. The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
Seneca The Younger
#42. When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though ...
Anna Friel
#43. From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#44. In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
Earl Warren
#45. Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
Seneca The Younger
#46. Statistical fact: cops will never pull over a man in a sweet van
if he's carrying forty pounds of sinsemilla buds. Another fact:
ninety percent of all statistics are made up.
Daniel Younger
#48. I was the best man at my younger brother's wedding and at the time part of my roast to him was I appreciated that he's done the only profession that makes me look good, running a used car dealership.
David Plouffe
#49. This man bore no resemblance to the bearded, grizzled Akeley of the snapshot; but was a younger and more urban person, fashionably dressed, and wearing only a small, dark moustache.
H.P. Lovecraft
#50. No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
Seneca The Younger
#51. Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
Cato The Younger
#52. A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.
Seneca The Younger
#53. Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
Seneca The Younger
#54. There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.
William McFee
#55. Younger citizens of the town do not know him at all save as a tall, apparently strong and healthy man who loafs in a brooding, saturnine fashion wherever he will be allowed, never exactly accepted by any group.
William Faulkner
#56. There was one path across Boston Commons that a young man must not ask a young woman to take unless he meant business. Which path was that? she asked Holmes. "Ah," she remembered the elderly doctor saying, "if I were only fifty years younger I would show you.
Katherine Paterson
#57. It shows him to be a very wealthy man. How did he acquire wealth? He is unmarried. His younger brother is a station master in the west of England. His chair is worth seven hundred a year.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#58. It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
Seneca The Younger
#59. Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
Seneca The Younger
#61. We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men are younger than old men; that they are better looking; that they are slimmer, stronger and more athletic; that they can hold a girl in more romantic fashion and speak more sweetly.
Isaac Asimov
#62. Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
Seneca The Younger
#63. A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.
Will Rogers
#64. Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.
Seneca The Younger
#65. To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#66. It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
Seneca The Younger
#67. It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?
Mark Wahlberg
#70. Well, it just figures, Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion.
Richard Stark
#71. The laws that Charondas gave to Catana, ... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
Will Durant
#72. I was sorry for her, as I am for any who are evicted from their haunts by the younger and stronger - always a sad occasion for man or beast.
E.B. White
#73. Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
Seneca The Younger
#74. Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
Seneca The Younger
#75. Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
Seneca The Younger
#76. What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
Seneca The Younger
#77. To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.
Bruce Feirstein
#78. Can I give a little advice to the old man on Capitol Hill? Stop saying teabagger. Ask your younger staffers what it means.
Andrea Tantaros
#80. The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
Seneca The Younger
#81. A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
Seneca The Younger
#82. Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
Cato The Younger
#84. Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
Seneca The Younger
#85. What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
[Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]
Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger
#87. The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
Seneca The Younger
#88. As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.
Seneca The Younger
#89. You made quite an impression on the old man, by the way."
"You mean Uncle Yuri?"
"He said he'd marry you. If you weren't related. And if he were fifty years younger. Et cetera. Et cetera."
"That a lot of very important 'ifs', Jacks.
Gabrielle Zevin
#90. I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.
James Badge Dale
#91. A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.
Seneca The Younger
#92. [WASHINGTON]
It's alright, you want to fight, you've got a hunger
I was just like you when I was younger
Head full of fantasies of dyin' like a martyr?
[HAMILTON]
Yes
[WASHINGTON]
Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#93. If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
Seneca The Younger
#94. Man, I'm messed up right now. My best friend is my father? The man I idolized as a kid ... whose tattoo is on my arm ... And he's younger than me. Yeah, I don't think I can handle this. Mindwipe me, somebody ... please! Where's that dragon from Sanctuary? Simi, go get Max. I need him.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#95. No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
Seneca The Younger
#96. When you're younger you want the boy who knows how to play the game but when you're older you want the man who knows when it's not a game anymore.
Christina Lauren
#97. Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
Seneca The Younger
#98. Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
Seneca The Younger
#100. When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I'm unnerved by the idea of men liking her. Because I think that there is a side to every man that really wants to watch a woman fall apart.
Emma Forrest
