Old Man Quotes

662 Old Man quotes by 516 unique authors

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is… — Pablo Casals
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet… — Bob Wells
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on… — William Temple
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. — Augustus
When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened… — Christopher Gist
I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face. — Charlie Bell
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the… — Marianne Moore
I want to be around for a long time. I want this to be a career. I want to sing like Tony Bennett. I want… — Michael Buble
Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly… — James Purefoy
Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what… — Epicurus
An old man loved is a winter with flowers — German Proverb
Better have an old man to humor than a young rake to break your heart. — Proverb
The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying such a laugh… — Mark Twain
There is nothing more beautiful in the world than a healthy wise old man — Lyn Yutang
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an _old man_. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive… — Ambrose Bierce
All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When… — Tom Lehrer
An old man loved is winter with flowers — Edgar Friedenberg
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I… — Josh Billings
Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age. — Seneca
An old man in love is like a flower in winter — Portuguese Proverb
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his… — Bible
My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old… — Bible
Last time I fell was from my own eyes when I saw a very old man carrying a heavy load on his head and falling… — Tasneem Hameed
This man painted the inside of a very big church in Italy. One of his giant paintings there is called The Creation of Adam. He… — Babloo

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