Old Man Quotes

662 Old Man quotes by 516 unique authors

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out. — William Shakespeare
Old men are always young enough to learn with profit. — Aeschylus
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. — Samuel Johnson
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste. — John Donne
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only… — Alexander Pope
Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.… — Ambrose Bierce
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call… — Josh Billings
Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody. — Willa Cather
He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep… — Mark Twain
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic… — Edward Lear
Tranquility is the old man's milk. — Thomas Jefferson
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read,… — Arnold Bennett
Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man. — Hannibal
Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through… — Thomas Jefferson
An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it. — Carl Jung
It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of… — Victor Hugo
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks. — Isaac Newton
Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating… — T.D. Jakes
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all… — Pablo Casals
The interesting thing about 'True Blood' is that its appeal is not contained to teenage girls. I get stopped in the street and questioned by… — Stephen Moyer
You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't… — Saint Augustine
The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could… — Arnold Ross
'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can… — Robert Ruark

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