„Young men," said Cæsar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.“
— Plutarch ancient Greek historian and philosopher 46 - 127
Cæsar Augustus
Roman Apophthegms
„Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.“
— Augustus
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„Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.“
— George Chapman, All Fools
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
— Benjamin Jowett Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator 1817 - 1893
Quelle: Letters, p. 250
„Bowls is a young man's game which old men can play.“
— David Bryant (bowls) bowls champion 1931
Quoted in Colin Jarman's The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990)
— Adlai Stevenson mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN 1900 - 1965
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
„When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.“
— Len Deighton English writer 1929
Eleven Declarations of War (London: Harcourt Brace, 1975) p. 11
„[ Old men go to death; death comes to young men. ]“
— George Herbert Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593 - 1633
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
„Old men are always young enough to learn.“
— Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Variant translation: Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Original: (el) ἀεὶ γὰρ ἥβη τοῖς γέρουσιν εὐμαθεῖν.
Quelle: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 584 ( line 583 of Richmond Lattimore's translation http://books.google.com/books?id=3duN7nP3OQYC&q=%22old+men+are+always+young+enough+to+learn%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage)
„Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.“
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
„Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.“
— Francis Bacon, buch Essays
Of Marriage and Single Life
Essays (1625)
„I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.“
— George S. McGovern American politician, Congressman, senator, Democratic presidential candidate 1922 - 2012
„Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.“
— Joseph Addison, buch Cato
Act II, scene v.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
„The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.“
— Clifford D. Simak American writer, journalist 1904 - 1988
“The Autumn Land” (p. 250); originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1971
Short Fiction, Skirmish (1977)
— André Maurois French writer 1885 - 1967
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old
— Joseph Addison politician, writer and playwright 1672 - 1719
Samuel Johnson in The Rambler, no. 50 (8 September 1750); many of Johnson's remarks have been attributed to Addison
Misattributed
— Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
No. 50 (8 September 1750); often misattributed to Joseph Addison
The Rambler (1750–1752)
— Robertson Davies Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist 1913 - 1995
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)
„Old Tubal Cain was a man of might
In the days when earth was young.“
— Charles Mackay British writer 1814 - 1889
"Tubal Cain".
Legends of the Isles and Other Poems (1851)
