#old man

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. ↗

— Christopher Gist

#among #away #came #family #five

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#clinical #condition #i #i love #irony

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#anywhere #black #clad #clean #colour

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#hasn #head #heart #man #old

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing. ↗

— John Legend

#calling #cos #i #john #legend

Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#clothes #comes #competition #dressed #go

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

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855. ↗

— George Osborne

#better #conservative #conservative party #like #man

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