#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

#continually #days #example #fact #fools

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

— Grantland Rice

#council #men #old #old men #planned

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#always #appealed #based #been #bottles

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. ↗