Old Man Quotes
662 Old Man quotes by 516 unique authors
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The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.
— George Osborne
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The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going…
— William Petersen
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Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
— Robert Plant
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but…
— Alexander Pope
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A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in…
— Salman Rushdie
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
— George Santayana
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I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.
— Maurice Sendak
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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
— William Shakespeare
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a…
— Sidney Sheldon
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And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like…
— Scott Stapp
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I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.
— John Sununu
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Observation is an old man's memory.
— Jonathan Swift
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
— Mark Twain
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I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.
— Bob Uecker
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Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
— M. Emmet Walsh
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If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
— will.i.am
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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
— William Butler Yeats
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I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to…
— Gary Snyder
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Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
— Roger Zelazny
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Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the…
— E. M. Forster
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…and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little…
— L. Frank Baum
Who Wrote These Old Man Quotes
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