There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
My old man is a man of few words.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.