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And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier.… — Ernest Gaines
Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes… — Richard Rodriguez
Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them… — John Milton
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young… — Henry Ward Beecher
A legend is an old man with a cane... — Miles Davis
A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he… — Sydney J. Harris
Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is… — Swami Vivekananda
Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful… — Malcolm Muggeridge
The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly… — Robertson Davies
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive… — Ambrose Bierce
A thousand of old man are just able to dream, but a young man is able to change the world! — Sukarno
Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again. — Unknown Author
Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our… — Alexis Sanchez
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. — Mark Twain
Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe… — Gautama Buddha
A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything… — Andrew Carnegie
A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men,… — John Jay Chapman
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single… — Bram Stoker
There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking… — Bruce Lee
It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what… — Helen Mirren
I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass. — Marcus Aurelius
I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years. — Seneca the Younger
What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges.… — Marshall Ulrich
Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be. — Peter Matthiessen

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