#old man

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

— Ernest Hemingway

#failure #interested #man #old #old man

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

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#good #good time #long #man #must

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

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 think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy. ↗

— David Wenham

#crazy #deterioration #find #finishes #humanity

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#belly #guy #i #lake #looking

Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong. ↗

— Ben Folds

#belong #couple #day #days #door