“I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me! — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
“The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn’t one of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school. — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm… — John Keble 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
“When I look back on all the worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that… — David Miller Copy Share Image
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any… — Al Lopez Copy Share Image
I was very young when I saw 'Gone With the Wind,' but I fell in love with Clark Gable. And when I… — Carroll Baker Copy Share Image
“Thou hast but enraged, not insulted me, sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou wouldst but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“A man votes for one party and remains miserable; he concludes that it was the other party that would bring the millennium.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“What's the matter?" said the old man. "Can't you make up your mind what kind you want?" The kid laughed. "I want… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Jack glanced at the old man, whose eyes were about as big as dinner plates. Jack just nodded with understanding. “You think… — James Riley Copy Share Image
She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I spent a lot of time as a volunteer in a nursing home in Amherst last summer. I was reading Dante's Divine… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Nobody took Rumfoord’s diagnosis seriously. The staff thought Rumfoord was a hateful old man, conceited and cruel. He often said to them,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Glad you like my first tableau. Come and see number two. Hope it isn't spoilt; it was very pretty just now. This… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Mom?” he whispered. “Dad?” They just looked at him, smiling. And slowly, Harry looked into the faces of the other people in… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon. In the months leading up to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“And the second as an old man might say it about the weather; not without sincerity but certainly without fervour.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter. — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“He was a splendid old man, only partly fraudulent, and what more can you ask of anyone?” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child,… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
A legend is an old man with acane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take. — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
