Young men think old men

“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”     George Chapman

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”     Truman Capote

“Well, we’ve only had a certain number of executions in the last few years- whatever it was- and two of them were for the personal convenience of Truman Capote.”     William Frank Buckley, Jr.

“Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.”     Marguerite de Valois

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.”      Saul Bellow