Young men should prove
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. G. H. Hardy
Old Man
Better mendacities Than the
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non dulce non et decor . walked eye-deep … Read more
And so they played
And so they played some of the world’s loveliest piano music – the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that. Eva Ibbotson
Old men’s prayers for
Old men’s prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them. Euripides
A tall, thin old
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That’s baseball. Ernie Harwell
We have reached the
We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life’s struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon’s tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, … Read more
I am glad we
I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Ernest Hemingway
My big fish must
My big fish must be somewhere. Ernest Hemingway
I would like to
I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing, the old man said. They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand. Ernest Hemingway
Most people are heartless
Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs. Ernest Hemingway