I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

— Stephen Leacock

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

— Karl von Frisch

The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were…

— Camille Paglia

My generation didn't face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know…

— Bill Maher

I'm a bit of a curmudgeon. I don't like Valentine's Day and New Year's and Halloween.

— Thomas Middleditch

I love playing a curmudgeon. I just love playing a sour guy.

— Zach Galifianakis

“I myself hope to live long enough to graduate from being a 'bad boy,' which I once was, to becoming a curmudgeon…”

— Christopher Hitchens

I really liked playing [Wilson]. I started to really - I mean, I think the thing about him is he's not really a curmudgeon,…

— Woody Harrelson

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

— Paul Fussell

Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's…

— Max Brooks

“I believe that I shall become a curmudgeon. Then at least I can complain, and it will be expected of me.”

— Mercedes Lackey

It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the…

— Cleveland Amory

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't…

— Maynard James Keenan

I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to…

— Edward Abbey

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.

— Bill Fitch