Old Men Quotes

172 Old Men quotes by 143 unique authors

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave? — Ernest Gaines
Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She… — Unknown Author
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas… — Theodore White
Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes sick people… — John Blacking
Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the… — Shirley Temple
By the way, I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking, but… — Alan Grayson
We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny… — Sol Saks
Only little boys and old men sneer at love. — Louis Auchincloss
Old men need applause too. — Don Everly
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. — Philip Sidney
And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier.… — Ernest Gaines
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young… — Henry Ward Beecher
The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly… — Robertson Davies
Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again. — Unknown Author
Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our… — Alexis Sanchez
A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men,… — John Jay Chapman
It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what… — Helen Mirren
I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a… — Henry Ford
Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal… — Hermann Hesse
Young men have visions, old men have dreams. — Red Smith
They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to… — Booth Tarkington
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,… — William Butler Yeats
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old… — Homer
I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in… — Fannie Flagg

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