Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)
“But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.”
Letter to Charles Willson Peale (20 August 1811)
1810s
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I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.”
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A tradition about Taliesin states that he was once a boy named "Gwion".
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The First Address of Taliesin
“Though I am young, I scorn to flit
On the wings of borrowed wit.”
George Wither (1588–1667) English poet
The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.”
Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter
Source: I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
“I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.”
Bernard Hopkins (1965) American boxer
As quoted at "Calzaghe nicks round one" at BBC Sport (8 February 2008) http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A32124377 <br class="br">2000s, 2008
“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire
