Down and Quote by Chinua Achebe

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

— Augustus

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

— George Herbert

All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For this they…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Men's language is as their lives.

— Seneca the Younger

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails…

— Norman Douglas

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

— Henry Adams

Old men make wars that young men may die.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet…

— Mary Ellen Chase

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on who's in…

— Russell Banks

When the old men fight, the young people die.

— Anne Fortier

An old young man, will be a young old man.

— Benjamin Franklin