Sentence examples for foolish old men from inspiring English sources
Terence's bawds, slaves, and foolish old men were replaced by chaste Christian maids, honest men, and constant Christians.
"Go home and write about your buttercups, you foolish old man".
I am a foolish old man who has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers — and a nincompoop!
Mr. Malandain has kept close to the original tale, but added still more humor and mischief, with Massine's foolish old man turned into a drag queen.
Here the King was a really fond and foolish old man, pathetic because absurd in his quite unfrightening parade of power.
Polonius, the foolish old man in "Hamlet," was given to fatuous declarations: To thine ownself be true, And it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man.
And the dialogue they have added sounds suitably Portisesque: "He has abandoned me to a congress of louts," for instance, and "I am a foolish old man who has been drawn into a wild-goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop".
A pseudonymous opponent of the Connecticut proposal had some fun with the notion of a deity who would, in a sense, be checking the index for his name: "A low mind may imagine that God, like a foolish old man, will think himself slighted and dishonored if he is not complimented with a seat or a prologue of recognition in the Constitution".
He is a selfish and rather foolish old man who has been insulated for too long from the small storms of the world that shake the less fortunate on a daily basis: the minor betrayals and indignities, the illnesses and inconveniences.
Wittgenstein, exasperated, turned very icy and replied 'I think this is a very foolish old man; so I am — what?'.
