#old men

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything. ↗

— Ben Folds

#like #lot #men #old #old men

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. ↗

— Theodore White

#america #best #china #find #generally

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#men #old #old men #prove #should

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#doing #happiness #men #misery #nothing

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. ↗

— Aeschylus

#good #learn #men #old #old men

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

— Augustus

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

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#end #life #live #long #men

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#lore #men #more #ocean #old

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#appreciate #being #forty #lovely #men

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ↗

— George McGovern

#die #dreaming #ears #fed #fed up