#old man

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#am #approve #body #follows #him

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

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating. ↗

— Sonny Liston

#ever #gave #man #me #old

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#man #old #old man #sin #worse

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. ↗

— Will Durant

#his #love #man #old #old man

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

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#creditors #dates #debtors #fixed #forgetting

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes. ↗

— Uri Geller

#beard #believe #big #day #every

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#casting #crawford #different #girl #go