
“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
Variant translation: Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 584 ( line 583 of Richmond Lattimore's translation http://books.google.com/books?id=3duN7nP3OQYC&q=%22old+men+are+always+young+enough+to+learn%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage)
ἀεὶ γὰρ ἥβη τοῖς γέρουσιν εὐμαθεῖν.
“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
"Repeal the 26th Amendment!" (10 November 2010) http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=395.
2010
“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
“Young men," said Cæsar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
Cæsar Augustus
Roman Apophthegms
Comparing Richard Nixon to Alben Barkley during the 1952 presidential race, as quoted in Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait (1959) by Earl Mazo, Chapter 7
“[ Old men go to death; death comes to young men. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 74
“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 want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”