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Old Men Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
- Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are…
More Old Men Quotes
- I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food… — Brendan Behan
- It is always in season for old men to learn. — Aeschylus
- It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen. — George Clooney
- Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems. — Art Hoppe
- Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly… — Charles Dickens
- When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling… — Alistair Cooke
- The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of… — Lydia M. Child
- Old men are always young enough to learn with profit. — Aeschylus
- Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are… — Alexander Pope
- Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise… — Ambrose Bierce
- Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody. — Willa Cather
- Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld