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The old man
«When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened»
«Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.»
«The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
The old man, The Young Man
«When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
astonished, boy, Father, hardly, ignorant, my father, Old Boys, old man, seven, Seven Years, The old man| Occasions:
Father's day
«When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Family,
Teenage
| Keywords:
astonished, fourteen, my father, Old Boys, old man, seven, Seven Years, The old man, twenty one
«The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
exceptions, his rule, knows, old, old man, rules, rule by, rule out, The Exceptions, The old man, The Rules, The Young Man, young, young man
«Tranquility is the old man's milk»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Age,
Tranquility
| Keywords:
The old man, tranquility