“To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men. — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
I'm not a completely envy-free zone - I envy 25-year-old men with magnificent bodies - but when I look at my colleagues… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“I’ve always made it a rule in my life not to pick fights with children, cute animals, or ignorant old men. I… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“(Sadie)"I'm not judging you, Dylan. I love vampire movies. If I looked surprised it was only because it's so different from your… — Sarah Mayberry Copy Share Image
Harry, I owe you an explanation, An explanation of an old man's mistakes. For I see now that what I have done,… — Albus Dumbledore Copy Share Image
Most men are far younger when they have their children and they're building their careers. If they are older they probably don't… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth.… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
We fought in 1974 - that was a long time ago. After 1981, we became the best of friends. By 1984, we… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The old men used to say that we should each of us look upon our neighbor's experiences as if they were our… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
Health is more than the mere absence of disease, it's the presence of a superior state of well being, a pizzazz, a… — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz Copy Share Image
“But you understand, you , my self, who always comes at a call (that would be a harrowing experience to call and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Chorus of old men: If we give them the least hold over us, 'tis all up! their audacity will know no bounds!… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“Old men, old men, old men. Medals, medals, medals. Not a brow without a furrow, not a breast without a star. My… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
“As Adrian hurried past the Senate House he noticed two old men standing outside Bowes and Bowes. He put an extra spring… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Cricket has a stigma of old men in white clothes playing cricket but readdressing that image to people who aren't necessarily cricket… — Jos Buttler Copy Share Image
I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers’ wombs. They deny it in Dorne… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm old-fashioned but I don't think mothers want their 25-year-old daughters to marry 85-year-old men, except maybe for the money. Money,… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“I knew what slant of light would make you turn over. It was then I felt the highways slide out of my… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls?” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Old men who never cheated, never doubted, Communicated monthly, sit and stare At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way Where a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image