Old Man Quotes

662 Old Man quotes by 516 unique authors

Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything… — Hesketh Pearson
Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways. — Elie Wiesel
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a… — Alexander Smith
Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as… — Walter Lippmann
...an old man is twice a child. — William Shakespeare
The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors. — Ambrose Bierce
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events. — Jonathan Swift
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… — Jonathan Swift
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the… — Chief Seattle
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not… — Euripides
This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of… — Amy Lowell
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor… — Epicurus
The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that,… — Giacomo Leopardi
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old… — Lewis Mumford
All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart. — Grantland Rice
I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way… — Richard Avedon
Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it. — Karrine Steffans
It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old… — R L Stine
I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you… — Zack Snyder
How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I… — Nate Mendel
I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If… — Harry Melling

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