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Letter "O" » old man
«The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| Keywords:
adult, approaches, closed, infant, old man, running back, The old man
«Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?»
«The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Elderly,
Love,
Marriage,
Youth
| Keywords:
compared, old man, superficial
«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»
«You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.»
«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 old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying such a laugh was money in a man's pocket because it cut down the doctor's bills like anything»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
anatomies, anatomy, bills, cut down, details, ended, joyously, laughed, loud, old man, pocket, pocket money, shook, The Doctor, The old man
«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
«Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?»
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