#old man

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

— Plato

#becomes #child #drunkard #man #old

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

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#course #grown #know #little #man

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter. ↗

— Chris Kirkpatrick

#happy #i #lonely #man #old

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#brave #even #liberty #makes #man

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

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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

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard. ↗

— Edward Lear

#built #feared #four #hen #i

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

— Sonny Liston

#ever #gave #man #me #old

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

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