“Old enough to look as if he knew what to do, young enough to look as if he could do it.”
Source: The Tejano Conflict (2014), Chapter 4
“The Autumn Land” (p. 250); originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1971
Short Fiction, Skirmish (1977)
“Old enough to look as if he knew what to do, young enough to look as if he could do it.”
Source: The Tejano Conflict (2014), Chapter 4
“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
Quoted in A Life of Azikiwe by K. A. B. Jones-Quartey (Penguin, 1965), p. 121
“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.”
Source: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), Ch. 3, P. 57