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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: GEORGE CHAPMAN, All Fools, act V, scene ii, lines 205–6, p. 87 (1968).

This was a common proverb which appeared not only in Chapman’s play, first published in 1605, but in other works as well. See The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, pp. 927–28 (1970).
SUBJECTS: Fools