“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
George S. McGovern (1922–2012) American politician, Congressman, senator, Democratic presidential candidate
“People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.”
"Old Men"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Context: People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when...
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.
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They do not really mourn old men." by Ogden Nash?
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“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
“Men grow old, but they do not ripen.”
Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) French novelist
Les hommes vieillissent, mais ne mûrissent pas.
Source: Notes sur la vie (published posthumously 1899), P. 103; translation p. 380.
“People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
"Old Men"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Context: People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when...
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.
“Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Becket, Prologue, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“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
“Young men," said Cæsar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Cæsar Augustus
Roman Apophthegms
“That is no country for old men.”
W.B. Yeats book The Tower
St. 1<br>Cf. Nelson Algren's later, "That was no town for the aged or the aging." <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Sailing to Byzantium http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1575/ <br class="br">Context: That is no country for old men. The young<br>In one another’s arms, birds in the trees<br>—Those dying generations—at their song,<br>The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,<br>Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long<br>Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.<br>Caught in that sensual music all neglect<br>Monuments of unaging intellect.
