
“Young men," said Cæsar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
Cæsar Augustus
Roman Apophthegms
All the Pretty Horses (1992)
“Young men," said Cæsar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
Cæsar Augustus
Roman Apophthegms
“Bowls is a young man's game which old men can play.”
Quoted in Colin Jarman's The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990)
“The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 74
“An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.”
Source: The Lamorna Wink
Source: In his essay Illusions, quoted in Gokhale, Balkrishna Govind India in the American mind Bombay: PopularPrakashan, 1992.
Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980)
Context: The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion. Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. Thus, as is now well known, this way of life has brought about pollution, destruction of the balance of nature, over-population, world-wide economic and political disorder and the creation of an overall environment that is neither physically nor mentally healthy for most of the people who live in it. Individually there has developed a widespread feeling of helplessness and despair, in the face of what seems to be an overwhelming mass of disparate social forces, going beyond the control and even the comprehension of the human beings who are caught up in it.
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet
“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”
"The Year it Came Apart" http://books.google.com/books?id=MekCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30, New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 (30 December 1974 – 6 January 1975), p. 30
“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”