Cæsar Augustus
Roman Apophthegms
“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
Source: Letters, p. 250
“Bowls is a young man's game which old men can play.”
Quoted in Colin Jarman's The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990)
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
“When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.”
Eleven Declarations of War (London: Harcourt Brace, 1975) p. 11
“[ Old men go to death; death comes to young men. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Old men are always young enough to learn.”
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)
“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
Of Marriage and Single Life
Essays (1625)
