
“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
Quoted in Colin Jarman's The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990)
“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
“Young men," said Cæsar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
Cæsar Augustus
Roman Apophthegms
Source: Letters, p. 250
“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
“The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.”
Source: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. XV
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