“Greet your son Aristocleides from me. I pray he may not turn out like you, since you, too, were once an irreproachable young man.”
to Gordias, Epp. Apoll. 46
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“I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.”

Talking to his son James http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/11/04/fear_and_strength.html on the night of his landslide victory over Herbert Hoover (8 November 1932), as quoted in Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2008) by H. W. Brands
1930s

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 561.

“If you wish,
I shall grow irreproachably tender:
not a man, but a cloud in trousers!”
Page 61.
The Cloud in Trousers (1915)

The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Southey/the_old_man's_comforts.htm, st. 1 (1799).