Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 607 |
AUTHOR: | George Chapman (1559?1634) |
QUOTATION: | Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. |
ATTRIBUTION: | This was a common proverb which appeared not only in Chapmans play, first published in 1605, but in other works as well. See The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, pp. 92728 (1970). |
SUBJECTS: | Fools |