“Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.”

“Bowls is a young man's game which old men can play.”

David Bryant (bowls) (1931) bowls champion

“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

“A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

“I hope our young men will not grow into such dodgers as these old men are. I believe everything that a young man says to me”

Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

“Now such an one for daughter Creon had
As maketh wise men fools and young men mad.”

William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman

“Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.”

Robert Jordan A Crown of Swords