#old man

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. ↗

— Paracelsus

#bean #fig #forges #gold #man

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#casting #crawford #different #girl #go

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

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

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#back #childhood #days #delusions #happy

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself. ↗

— Hugh Downs

#creation #dirty #field #himself #i

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#before #doing #done #going #i

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

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