#old man

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases. ↗

— George Combe

#always #back #bar #bold #cases

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#failure #interested #man #old #old man

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that. ↗

— Robert Lansing

#forward #get #i #know #looking

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard. ↗

— Edward Lear

#built #feared #four #hen #i

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating. ↗

— Sonny Liston

#ever #gave #man #me #old

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. ↗

— Fred Astaire

#dancing #i #like #little #look

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#good #good time #long #man #must

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#fact #gestures #had #hours #i

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality. ↗

— Erich Auerbach

#course #differentiated #full #how #individual

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