#old 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

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

— Grantland Rice

#council #men #old #old men #planned

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

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

— Victor Hugo

#doing #happiness #men #misery #nothing

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

— Augustus

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

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

— Colleen McCullough

#appreciate #being #forty #lovely #men

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. ↗