an old man with a staff. He had a tall pointed blue hat, a…

“Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

— Ernie Harwell

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.”

— John Green

The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray…

— Anonymous

I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?

— Barry Cryer

The true love suddenly broken, not only but like the old man who has lost the stick

— Anonymous

“He wants to dream like a young man with the wisdom of a old man, he wants his home and securities, he wants to…

— Bob Seger

“IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they saw him…

— Hermann Broch

“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No,…

— Cormac McCarthy

There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To…

— Edward Lear

My old man was ruthless. He terrorised us.

— Mark Hunt

Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has…

— Watchman Nee

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out…

— Jacques Roumain

“You’d better keep her tied.” “Why?” A yawn stretched Hunter’s dark face. “Because she’s looking skittish.” “She’s naked.” Sheathing his knife, Hunter flopped on…

— Catherine Anderson