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Old Man Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
- How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to…
- No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
- Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
- Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old…
- No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real…
- It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea
- Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by…
- I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
- Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
- My big fish must be somewhere.
- The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
- I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor…
More Old Man Quotes
- You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
- I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
- It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin. — Abu Bakr
- I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food… — Brendan Behan
- It is always in season for old men to learn. — Aeschylus
- A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be. — Steven Brust
- For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be,… — John Cleese
- As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old… — Eric Clapton
- It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen. — George Clooney