Old man Quotes

Know what you are talking about.

— Pope John Paul II

My big fish must be somewhere.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Jason hated being an old man.”

— Rick Riordan

The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell

— James Thurber

...an old man is twice a child.

— William Shakespeare

I'm like a 70-year-old man at heart.

— Diana Silvers

Observation is an old man's memory.

— Jonathan Swift

An old man in a house is a good sign.

— Benjamin Franklin

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Most of the trolls except Hulking Teeth Gnasher and Old Man Saliva left.”

— Kiersten White

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

— Catherine Fisher

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

— Steven Brust

“A comfortable old age without health is poverty.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.”

— Edward Abbey

A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.

— Ovid

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

— Augustus

A legend is an old man with acane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

— Miles Davis

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child,…

— Barry Humphries

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

— Sir John Davies

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing…

— Ray Bradbury

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

— Erich Maria Remarque

I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music…

— Harry Connick, Jr

“He was a splendid old man, only partly fraudulent, and what more can you ask of anyone?”

— Saul Bellow

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying…

— Anonymous

Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying…

— Hermann Hesse

“Now, it’s time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that’s gonna be torn…

— Dan Groat

“I read a story about an old gentlemen who was known for his godly life. Someone asked him one day, “What do…

— Greg Laurie

President Reagan likes to say Uncle Sam is a kindly old man with a spine of steel, and that he is. But…

— Walter F. Mondale

Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus or thou…

— Charles Spurgeon

“He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world…

— Robert Penn Warren

Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply…

— Richard Rodriguez

“There is an old story passed down through the generations of a Native American grandfather counseling his young grandson, telling him that…

— Madeline Sheehan

“A preaching bush woke up Aloysius. It was a bush that claimed to have taken a correspondence course from an American seminary,…

— Anthony C. Winkler

It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Everyone has an angel, a guardian who watches over us. We can't know what form they'll take. One day old man, next…

— Anonymous

But you're dead," said Harry. "Oh yes," said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. "Then...I'm dead too?" "Ah," said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. "That is…

— J. K. Rowling

“Of all the mysteries, Darius,” the old man began. “Perhaps the greatest is Mind. For all the ignorance in the world, the…

— Darius Jones

“Van Houten, I’m a good person but a shitty writer. You’re a shitty person but a good writer. We’d make a good…

— John Green

“I never went back to the hunter. I didn’t know how to explain the brand. How to explain your grandmother, or apologize.…

— Sarah J. Maas