#old man

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#conferred #dies #lived #long #man

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#even #felt #grew #i #i think

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#forsake #forsaken #him #man #more

Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong. ↗

— Ben Folds

#belong #couple #day #days #door

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#comfortable #get #great #happy-go-lucky #i

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#corner #dugout #his #man #old

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#exceptions #knows #man #old #old man

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. ↗

— Augustus

#man #men #old #old man #old men

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#always #am #i #i am #man

I want to be around for a long time. I want this to be a career. I want to sing like Tony Bennett. I want to be an old man and I want to go through all the ups and downs and I wanna still love what I do. ↗

— Michael Buble

#bennett #career #downs #go #i