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
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
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
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
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
“Our specialty is stories about little girls who break their spines and get adopted by grouchy old men because they smile so… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work.… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
“CHILDREN see the world as a place of OPTIMISM. TEENS see the world as a place of IMAGINATION. YOUTH see the world… — Wisdom Ogbe Copy Share Image
“He searched her face for the hint of compassion. It wasn’t there. She had never written a word of fiction in her… — James A. Newman Copy Share Image
Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“The enigma that had bothered me in Sydney was beginning to resolve itself. If Australians allowed themselves to be represented worldwide as… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...Is there a more monstrous thought, a more convincing spectacle, a more patent affirmation of the impotence and madness of the brain?… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“The heat of the day had long since retreated into the desert, and the city, which had drowsed through the hot afternoon,… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
“Already it is twilight down in the Laredito. Bats fly forth from their roostings in courthouse and tower and circle the quarter.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is the decisive factor in planning guerrilla operations. Where is the enemy? In what strength? What does he propose to do?… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
“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
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
Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs.… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
There's a sense you get from the Coens' work, like 'No Country for Old Men,' where you put these characters in situations,… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that you're living for… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
“And like the old men who sat around the piazzetta facing the Piave memorial, we’ll speak about two young men who found… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“When people are to be slaughtered en masse, the local population is not immediately gripped by a bloodthirsty hatred of the old… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's healthy to have 68-year-old men, 70-year-old men thinking regularly about a traumatic experience that happened to them and… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
“it is so dark now with the sadness of people they were tricked, they were taught to expect the ultimate when nothing… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The… — Caleb Landry Jones Copy Share Image
“Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got the right… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
