Old Man Quotes

662 Old Man quotes by 516 unique authors

And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my… — Edgar Allan Poe
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost. — Erich Maria Remarque
Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die. — Lord Byron
Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Abe shook his head, and now the smile was gone altogether. "That's not the reason either. Don't lie to me little girl." I felt my… — Richelle Mead
The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little… — James Frey
Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old… — Ernest Hemingway
Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only… — Leonard Cohen
And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs… — Meg Rosoff
My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.'… — Patricia Briggs
It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there… — P.G. Wodehouse
Halt snorted derisively. "Battleschool evidently isn't what it used to be," he replied. "It's a fine thing when an old man like me can sleep… — John Flanagan
I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if you sit on… — Nora Roberts
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an… — Duane Michals
Menoeceus is a great name. (Astrid) For an old man or a feminine hygiene product. Not for my son. And next time I get to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut… — Sherwood Anderson
Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid… — Christopher Moore
I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay? — Rebecca Stead
Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. — William Shakespeare
This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your… — Laurie Halse Anderson
No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real… — Ernest Hemingway
The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young… — Colum McCann
Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye to eat it,… — George R. R. Martin
Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that… — Andy Andrews
Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street all… — Tom Waits

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