For centuries, older men have been marrying and shacking up with younger women and no one has batted an eyelash.
Darren Aronofsky's yarn about rocky Lord of the Rings cast-offs who help a centuries-old man with no carpentry experience build a formidable cargo vessel has really captured the cinemagoer's imagination.
On a different occasion, Hinsdale asked his friend: "You know how chemical preparations are sometimes applied to old parchments to bring out the writing centuries old Some men and some nations can never see and read truths … however plain they may be, till blood brings out the characters in which they are written.
The remains appeared centuries old and the man seemed to have died violently, perhaps of a broken neck.
"Written in a Carefree Mood" Lu Yu, 12th-century Chinese poet Old man pushing seventy, In truth he acts like a little boy, Whooping with delight when he spies some mountain fruits, Laughing with joy, tagging after village mummers; With the others having fun stacking tiles to make a pagoda, Standing alone staring at his image in the jardinière pool.
I began to think about the vast sea of articles written about the centuries old lament from men that women have some weird language that they'll never understand and how exhausting is was constantly trying to figure out what we're thinking.
A fifth-century bust of an old man, probably made in Athens, looks stylistically adrift: he's part Roman philosopher and, with his enormous, hypnotized eyes, part Gothic saint.
If he did, then visitors to the Pauline Chapel today could gaze in awe at a masterpiece entitled "Saul's Conversion To Realising How Freaking Awesome Paul III Is" – a masterpiece which would almost certainly feature a cutaway joke about the 16th century equivalent of the old man in Family Guy who chases young boys.
She is also just irreverent enough about the pleasures of being married to a man six centuries old.
And rather as Gladstone, the grand old man of 19th-century British politics, dubbed his own last cabinet meeting in March 1894 "the blubbering cabinet" (because ministers wept at his departure), so Mr Abhisit's last might be called "the spendthrift cabinet".
In two ink drawings, one dating from the early 13th century and another from the mid-16th century, Laozi is shown as a balding old man.
