Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

Greet your son Aristocleides from me. I pray he may not turn out like you, since you, too, were once an irreproachable young man.

We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men are younger than old men; that they are better looking; that they are slimmer, stronger and more athletic; that they can hold a girl in more romantic fashion and speak more sweetly.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

For as I like a man in whom there is something of the old, so I like a man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.

Everywhere one turns, the Older Men have a retinue of younger Men in their kitty to whom they owe their continued relevance. They mentor, support, teach and create opportunities for the next generation of Men and thereby lives their dreams in these young Men.

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

Having over the years abided by my little commandments. [...] Not to end up being the man folk show their children. To say don't grow up dilapidated like him.

The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.

A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.