"Old Men"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Context: People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when...
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.
“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Young men," said Cæsar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
Cæsar Augustus
Roman Apophthegms
“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
“People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.”
"Old Men"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Context: People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when...
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.
When his show went onto a high definition channel.
Interview, Esquire, September 18, 2009 http://www.esquire.com/features/the-screen/larry-david-interview-0709
Source: World Made By Hand (2008), Chapter 4, p. 20
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 169.
