I get older I get more cantankerous, but June [Hillary] gets a bit more cantankerous, too.
I'm not cantankerous.
Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.
A lot of the Qur'an is, frankly, cantankerous, vitriolic, man-hating stuff.
I'm not quite as much of a curmudgeon being old. I'm not cantankerous. But otherwise, I'm about the same.
As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
I'm quite a cantankerous soul. People have this impression that I have a happy disposition. But I'm dark and cynical underneath.
I turn complaining into music! I'm thinking I might have invented a new style. I call it 'cantankerous rock.'
Politics and public life are not for the faint of heart. It has been and always will be a noisy and cantankerous place.
As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.
Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.
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.
Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.
For little boys are rancorous
When robbed of any myth,
And spiteful and cantankerous
To all their kin and kith.
But little girls can draw conclusions
And profit from their lost illusions.
I have seen productions of Julius Caesar that set it in a modern, Western context and it just looks as though they're getting rid of a particularly cantankerous chairman of the board rather than the great leader of the world.
The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.