Typical Old Man Sayings

#1. I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Maurice Sendak

#2. It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

Voltaire

#3. It's an alien toilet!" -Cassie

Katherine Applegate

#4. I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.

Bassem Youssef

#5. For almost a decade I was haunted by the memory of Deborah Black, I was about to claim. But the memory didn't haunt me; I haunted the memory. Went to it, at night or in the deadened hours of empty afternoons, woke it up, reminded it of all the fun we'd had, made it do things with me.

Glen Duncan

#6. Sometimes pain is the call of a wound that needs tending, and sometimes it is the sting of its healing.

Melissa Febos

#7. I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him (what would seem so necessary for the first Christian theologian) that of lucidity and orderly exposition.

C.S. Lewis

#8. We might be hollow, but we're brave

Lorde

#9. Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

#10. Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

Jack Nicklaus

#11. I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.

Marianne Williamson

#12. Villainy was not simply the red raging glory of inflicting well-deserved pain; it was also the curdling knowledge of having inflicted injustice. A villain simply did not care. Only the victims did.

Meredith Duran