“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
“Bowls is a young man's game which old men can play.”
Quoted in Colin Jarman's The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990)
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