“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Marriage and Single Life
Essays (1625)
“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.”
"On Being Idle".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
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Arnold Hauser (1892–1978) Hungarian art historian
The Social History of Art, Volume I. From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, 1999, Chapter IV. The Middle Ages
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Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
Context: The fact that men are naturally quarrelsome is presumed to be an argument against such institutions as the League. But it is precisely the fact of the natural pugnacity of man that makes such institutions necessary. If men were naturally and easily capable of being their own judges, always able to see the other's case, never got into panics, never lost their heads, never lost their tempers and called it patriotism — why, then we should not want a League. But neither should we want in that case most of our national apparatus of government either — parliaments, congresses, courts, police, ten commandments. These are all means by which we deal with the unruly element in human nature.
“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”
Oscar Wilde book Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
As quoted in “When Writers Turn to Brave New Forms” by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times (24 March 1986)
“My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Slays
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Speech in New York City http://books.google.com/books?id=Bc7iAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;Generally+young+men+are+regarded+as+radicals+This+is+a+popular+misconception+The+most+conservative+persons+I+ever+met+are+college+undergraduates&quot;+&quot;the+radicals&quot;+&quot;are+the+men+past+middle+life&quot;, (19 Nov 1905), The Papers of Woodrow Wilson 16:228 <br class="br">1900s
“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