Judging by this Venetian maxim of old, most men are condemned to precisely the opposite—young wine and old women. Most maxims are about envy of these very men.

Footnote

1. Cibotto, G.A., ed., Proverbi del Veneto, Firenze: Giunti Gruppo Editoriale, 1992 (first published in 1976), p. 13.