Old Man Quotes

662 Old Man quotes by 516 unique authors

I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or… — Marilynne Robinson
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. — Homer
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But… — James Joyce
I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the… — John Christopher
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy… — Theodore Roosevelt
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway
The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The… — Shel Silverstein
That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he… — Terry Pratchett
I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar. I… — Gordon B. Hinckley
And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no… — Anne Holm
It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it.… — Arundhati Roy
I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the… — James Frey
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future. — Boyd K. Packer
And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than… — Eva Ibbotson
Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day? — Ernest Hemingway
In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Sam was slow getting up. To Quinn he looked like an old man standing up after slipping on the ice. But he looked up at… — Michael Grant
There we go again, old men and their stupid arguments. What a pain. ~Toshiro Hitsugaya — Tite Kubo
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon… — Hermann Hesse
Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four… — Gunter Grass
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My… — Cormac McCarthy
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads… — Heinrich Heine
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion… — David Eddings
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish… — Arthur W. Pink
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot. — Oscar Wilde

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