Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It could be the old man I see at the store or the chick I see walking down the block. Normal people… — Mic Geronimo Copy Share Image
“NO KISS FORGOTTEN; it resides in the memory as in the flesh, and so Katya many times felt the press of Marcus… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate… — Herbert Beerbohm Tree Copy Share Image
“His voice just stops, exactly like when the needle is lifted from a phonograph record by the hand of someone who is… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One advantage of doing Lear at 70 is that you don't have to play an old man. — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
And isn't that weird? Think about this, when you're born, you nurse on your mama. And then you get a little older,… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
“My secret weapon is my anger. That's what stimulates me as an artist. I want change. I want it yesterday. I'm pissed… — Dan Fante Copy Share Image
It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“That was the Old Man’s favorite song. “Blow Ye Trumpet.” Them Negroes was far away from the doings on the plaza where… — James McBride Copy Share Image
THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock"… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
“she threw herself wearily into a chair that stood out of its place in the middle of the house floor, where in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Oh beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man we… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
“Alexis grabbed his arm. "Tom Jones? Wow, I totally love Tom Jones. He's like quintessential Vegas—over the top and indecent fun. Let… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I ran up the street. All the way to Largo da Camara. Got there very tired. Mad, rather than tired. Uninvited old… — Ignacio De Loyola Brandao Copy Share Image
All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an old man and that I… — William Wendt Copy Share Image
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste. — John Donne Copy Share Image
