“A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.”
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Francis Bacon295
English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and auth… 1561–1626Related quotes
Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904–1996) First President of Nigeria
Quoted in A Life of Azikiwe by K. A. B. Jones-Quartey (Penguin, 1965), p. 121
“They call me old, but I'm only 65-years old young man.”
Paavo Väyrynen (1946) Finnish politician
Presidential Election Campaign 2012
“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
“He was as young as twenty years allowed, and as old as it could make him.”
Mervyn Peake book Titus Alone
Source: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 5 (p. 815)
