Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Young men preen. Old men scheme.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.