#old man

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#before #doing #done #going #i

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all. ↗

— Black Elk

#am #beautiful #because #did #die

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be. ↗

— Steven Brust

#man #old #old man #waiting #without

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#i #i am #i want you #life #man

I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything. ↗

— Sessue Hayakawa

#anyway #back #bow #bowing #each

I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times' and 'Discovery Channel.' Maybe I'm just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff. ↗

— James Marsters

#discovery #fabulous #hybrid #i #just

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#cannot #critic #cruel #enchantment #forever

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#acts #his #like #make #man

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. ↗

— Plato

#becomes #child #drunkard #man #old

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd. ↗

— James Purefoy

#airport #grumpy #i #i can #important