#old man

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

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

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

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

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#brave #even #liberty #makes #man

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

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#failure #interested #man #old #old man