| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 8891 |
| AUTHOR: | Plutarch (A.D. 46?A.D. c. 120) |
| QUOTATION: | And when the physician said, Sir, you are an old man, That happens, replied Pausanias, because you never were my doctor. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Laconic Apophthegms. Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax. |
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