#old man

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

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

#culture #i #into #job #keep

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#ate #bold #first #man #old man

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that. ↗

— Robert Lansing

#forward #get #i #know #looking

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality. ↗

— Erich Auerbach

#course #differentiated #full #how #individual

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

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ↗

— Mark Twain

#great #happened #i #i am #known

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

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset. ↗

— M. Emmet Walsh

#hell #i #man #old #old man