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Old Man Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
- Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are…
- Observation is an old man's memory.
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