#old man

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#interesting #man #misery #mother #nobody

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#exceptions #knows #man #old #old man

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. ↗

— Augustus

#man #men #old #old man #old men

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#always #am #i #i am #man

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#average #being #culture #does #exist

I want to be around for a long time. I want this to be a career. I want to sing like Tony Bennett. I want to be an old man and I want to go through all the ups and downs and I wanna still love what I do. ↗

— Michael Buble

#bennett #career #downs #go #i

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#come #feel #finally #full #god

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#clinical #condition #i #i love #irony

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

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#backyard #deck #go #grew #hiking