He’s about seventy-one, a retired lawyer with a reputation for grouchiness. But it’s less grouchiness, I think, than a simple unwillingness to put up with anyone who doesn’t interest him.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

Though old himself, he disliked old men.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.

One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy dirty old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts;I could never stand to see anyone like that. whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. I

I don't know how it is that you start working at something you don't like, and before you know it you're an old man.

All I'm saying is that old people need to be old people. You need oldness. You need to see old people. You need to go Right, they might have a solution they've been on the earth longer. Quick, we need an answer. How old are yer? - I'm 32 - Well you look 78!

I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty.

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.