Old Man Quotes
662 Old Man quotes by 516 unique authors
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I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my…
— James Cromwell
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Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen…
— Cyprian
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Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.
— Denis MacShane
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Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to…
— Robert Ruark
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The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something…
— Lyn Nofziger
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There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the…
— Edward Lear
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You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right…
— John Powell
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I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I…
— Jonathan Franzen
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The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!
— Gene Mauch
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For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for…
— Louisa May Alcott
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The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like…
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.
— Lin Yutang
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I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
— Owen D. Young
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An old man in a house is a good sign.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad…
— Willow Shields
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I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.
— Brad Renfro
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It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work. A dialogue ensues…
— Isamu Noguchi
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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his…
— Epicurus
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Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who…
— K. Pattabhi Jois
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"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty…
— Robert Southey
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The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility,…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.
— Jeremy Grantham
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Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads…
— James Anthony Froude
Who Wrote These Old Man Quotes
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