Old Man Quotes
662 Old Man quotes by 516 unique authors
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Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. "He was handsome," said said. Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just…
— Kristin Cashore
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Did you get Mom a birthday present?" Helen asked. "Yes," Gansey replied. "Myself." "The gift that keeps on giving." "I don't think that minor children…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.
— Pittacus Lore
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An old young man, will be a young old man.
— Benjamin Franklin
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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in…
— Seneca the Younger
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How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled…
— William James
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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
— Francis Picabia
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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be…
— Francis John McConnell
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I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his…
— Andre Maurois
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What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part;…
— Epictetus
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I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
— Plutarch
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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look…
— Gene Hackman
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I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.
— Fred Astaire
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The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a…
— Mark Twain
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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
— G. H. Hardy
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The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings as a truck…
— Lindsay Fox
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I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring.…
— Roberto Duran
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In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at…
— Willie McCovey
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I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing…
— Tony Benn
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When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked…
— John Patrick Shanley
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My old man is a man of few words.
— Scott Eastwood
Who Wrote These Old Man Quotes
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