#old men

Young men preen. Old men scheme. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#old #old men #scheme #young #young men

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#continually #days #example #fact #fools

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

— Ben Folds

#like #lot #men #old #old men

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

— G. H. Hardy

#men #old #old men #prove #should

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

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

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas. ↗

— Robert Plant

#better #certain #men #old #old men

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. ↗

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

#die #fight #hate #i #into

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#gray #guys #hair #high #high school

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#council #men #old #old men #planned