Old Men Quotes

172 Old Men quotes by 143 unique authors

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. — George Bernard Shaw
Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a… — Sidney Sheldon
If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s. — will.i.am
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' — William Butler Yeats
I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to… — Gary Snyder
But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge… — Anne Frank
It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,… — Carter G. Woodson
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful… — Isaac Asimov
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of… — Charles Bukowski
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But… — James Joyce
I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the… — John Christopher
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway
That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he… — Terry Pratchett
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future. — Boyd K. Packer
Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day? — Ernest Hemingway
In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There we go again, old men and their stupid arguments. What a pain. ~Toshiro Hitsugaya — Tite Kubo
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads… — Heinrich Heine
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue… — Warren Ellis
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They… — Walt Whitman

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