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 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 |