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Attribution for quote re "old age and treachery"?

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~~seadancer~~

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Jul 6, 2011, 12:25:53 PM7/6/11
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What is the correct attribution for the following quote:
"Old age and treachery will always defeat youth and skill."
---Sea

TheGnome

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Jul 6, 2011, 12:52:09 PM7/6/11
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Trying to unload a jalopy on a young whipper snapper, eh? :)

All I can find Sea is it listed as an "English proverb."

ObQ:
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the
bankers! [...] How tenderly we look at her faults if she
is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we
find her!
--William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863)
_Vanity Fair_ [1847—1848]

k

David C Kifer

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Jul 6, 2011, 1:16:56 PM7/6/11
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All I have is a variation and extension of it from elsewhere on usenet,
a decade-plus ago:

Age and treachery will defeat youth and strength, two falls out of three.
-- Jerry Hollombe on alt.callahans
If there's a second fall, you didn't do the first one right.
-- Tim Merrigan on alt.callahans


--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]

~~seadancer~~

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Jul 7, 2011, 11:18:06 PM7/7/11
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On 7/6/2011 12:52 PM, TheGnome wrote:

Yes, k, I too saw that "English Proverb" was often given as an
attribution. I guess that's good as any.
---Sea
ObQ:
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up
all by itself. -Tom Wilson

~~seadancer~~

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Jul 7, 2011, 11:33:16 PM7/7/11
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On 7/6/2011 1:16 PM, David C Kifer wrote:
> ~~seadancer~~ wrote:
>> What is the correct attribution for the following quote:
>> "Old age and treachery will always defeat youth and skill."
>> ---Sea
>
> All I have is a variation and extension of it from elsewhere on usenet,
> a decade-plus ago:
> Age and treachery will defeat youth and strength, two falls out of three.
> -- Jerry Hollombe on alt.callahans
> If there's a second fall, you didn't do the first one right.
> -- Tim Merrigan on alt.callahans

Thanks, David. I used to drop in at alt.callahans every once in a while.
It was an interesting place. Now I've almost forgotten that it even existed.
---Sea
"By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only
have to remember it." -George Burns

w...@kireno.com

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Sep 10, 2015, 12:48:06 PM9/10/15
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One reference I found said it's a Greek proverb. If you think about it, that probably makes more sense than an English proverb.

dav...@gmail.com

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Jan 20, 2018, 6:28:21 PM1/20/18
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David Mamet-American playwright.

"Old age and treachery will always defeat youth and exuberance."
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