“I do not know who the two old men were or what any of them were doing, but there are moments when… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“The old world told men merely about to live and to die. Today men think about defeating death and resurrection.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
When it comes to classic Disney, I've got it in my DNA. I mean, the guy who trained me, the man who… — Chris Buck Copy Share Image
Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
I held 18, 19, or 20-year-old men in my arms, and I heard their last words, and I saw them take their last breath. — James McCloughan Copy Share Image
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine. I don't… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
“But there's time yet. The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“Back then, in 1967, wizards were all, more or less, Merlin and Gandalf. Old men, peaked hats, white beards. But this was… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Everyone gets killed in the shower. Don't you go to the movies? Psycho. Dead in shower. The MExican in No country for… — Derek B. Miller Copy Share Image
“They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Bleak pushed the chair around a corner so the light of the dying sun stained their faces a healthy red, and added,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Cassie Wright's largest audience, the only part of her audience still growing, is composed of sixteen-to-twenty-five-year-old men. These men buy her backlist… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top,… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“The spelling in the honors essays was mostly correct, and the diction was clear (although my cautious college-bound don’t-take-a-chancers had an irritating… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Freemans Mill The old mill long had closed its doors the rotting wheel would turn no more no grain to grind, no… — Sadie Copy Share Image
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I've earned every wrinkle on my face. I actually like my wrinkles. And guess what? There are a lot of 60-year-old men… — Doris Burke Copy Share Image
“Women found old men amusing, I guessed. At my age, I had learned to discern passing amusement from any woman’s true romantic… — H.T. Night Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago. — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking. — Elizabeth Thornton Copy Share Image
“Maybe I should be a lawyer instead of a magical baker, Rose thought. Lawyers' mistakes rarely result in old men climbing on… — Kathryn Littlewood Copy Share Image
The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there. — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Yahweh—a jealous god, who would hold men to himself and who turned mankind away from the Tree of Immortality, instead of leading… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
“The old men are as red as roses, and still handsome. A clear skin, a peach-bloom complexion, and good teeth are found… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote… — Homer Copy Share Image
“When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.” — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
