Old Man Quotes

662 Old Man quotes by 516 unique authors

But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge… — Anne Frank
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin. — Eric Clapton
It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,… — Carter G. Woodson
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I… — Robertson Davies
My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up. — Robert A. Heinlein
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought… — Michel de Montaigne
The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all… — Mitch Albom
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… — Joan Didion
To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to… — Victor Hugo
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the… — Mitch Albom
She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about… — C.S. Lewis
I forewarn you, this will be a rather long talk. I am an old man. I do not know how much longer I will live,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful… — Isaac Asimov
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is… — Wendy Mass
Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.' Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.' And anything worth dying for,'… — Joseph Heller
If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person,… — Robert Kiyosaki
Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It… — George MacDonald
Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate.… — Paulo Coelho
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I… — Mark Twain
We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They… — Douglas Adams
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of… — Charles Bukowski
Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main… — Paulo Coelho
How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to… — Ernest Hemingway
All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one… — Douglas Adams
An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is… — Orson Scott Card

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