And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do… — Marco Polo Copy Share Image
“What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can old man, — you who… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“They waited, none of them entirely convinced that the old man wouldn't appear before them again like the ghost of Hamlet's father… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk -… — Oona Chaplin Copy Share Image
The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept… — Sara Gruen 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
“Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?' Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. 'This long.' He snapped his fingers.… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“The child was left alone to die in the hallway. Here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“My father played the melodion Outside at our gate; There were stars in the morning east; And they danced to his music.… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“When I look at this age with the eye of a distant future, I find nothing so remarkable in the man of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Show me the telegrams they sent you, one every day for six days while they were walking six hundred miles on their… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“I’m starting to feel like an old man alone in a small boat In a snowfall of blossoms, Only the south wind… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
“Does that change things?” asked the old man. “Maybe Anansi’s just some guy from a story, made up back in Africa in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason.… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There are times when I swear that boy is as mature as an old man, and other times when he hasn’t got… — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
My mom told us that we should have good shoes, a good suit, and a watch, so I was running around at… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
“Behold, A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns; Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. But the old man… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The front door had been secure at some point in time, I suppose, but now it usually hung ajar by a few… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I… — Scott Stapp Copy Share Image
“can't withstand thee, then, old man. Not reasoning; not remonstrance; not entreaty wilt thou hearken to; all this thou scornest. Flat obedience… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“And if I really wanted to understand the Raramuri, I should have been there when this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“I am not sure that I could explain in a way you could understand," replied the old man. "We judge life by… — J. Jefferson Farjeon Copy Share Image
“OLD MAN: Make believe yourself, it's your turn. OLD WOMAN: It's your turn. OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn OLD… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out… — Norbert Bisky Copy Share Image
“The hundred-year-old man had never let himself be irritated by people, even when there was a good reason to be, and he… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“They didn’t give you a glass for that?” I ask, nodding at the soda can as I shake his hand. The old… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
People think God is a man. People think God has got ears, nose, teeth and he rises daily in the morning, brushes… — Prem Rawat 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
I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair… — Clint Eastwood 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
