Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.
I am cantankerous.
Stubborn, snarly male.
Politics and public life are not for the faint of heart. It has been and always will be a noisy and cantankerous place.
I'm not cantankerous.
Sometimes I'm crotchety, angry, curmudgeonly - you know, I do have that side. I don't always show it.
I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.
Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.
