#old man

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

— Plato

#becomes #child #drunkard #man #old

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradict #endeavor #fair #friend #him

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#culture #i #into #job #keep

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. ↗

— William Temple

#capable #creature #live #man #more

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#am #any #conceive #electrical #handicapped

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases. ↗

— George Combe

#always #back #bar #bold #cases

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that. ↗

— Robert Lansing

#forward #get #i #know #looking

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. ↗

— Fred Astaire

#dancing #i #like #little #look

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#fact #gestures #had #hours #i

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. ↗

— Miles Davis

#doing #i #known #legend #man