Old Man Quotes

662 Old Man quotes by 516 unique authors

History -- its what those bitter old men write. — Jackie Kennedy
The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread… — Bear Bryant
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary. — George Savile
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place,… — Samuel Johnson
So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got… — Buddy Guy
This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian… — Marc Forgione
Be kind to an old man. — Walter Cronkite
In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had… — Bear Bryant
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon… — Jack Gilbert
HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter garb. His head… — Raven Grimassi
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a… — Robert Charles Wilson
When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here.… — Matt de la Pena
Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know… — James Anthony Froude
Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old… — Stephen Leacock
Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft. — Ray Bradbury
When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid. — Billy Bob Thornton
I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man,… — Paul Westerberg
I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. — Michael J. Fox
A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head. — David Lloyd George
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these… — Lady Gregory
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. — Sean Connery
I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are… — Steve Coogan
Young men preen. Old men scheme. — Mason Cooley
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. — Miles Davis
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. — Johnny Depp

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