Old Men Quotes

172 Old Men quotes by 143 unique authors

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in… — J M Coetzee
What i'm trying to tell you," Min said, "is that im going to grow up to be one of those chubby old ladies. It's in… — Jennifer Crusie
...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the people who had… — Tana French
Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage… — Marilynne Robinson
What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to… — Oscar Wilde
You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old… — Brandon Sanderson
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way… — Orson Scott Card
Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern… — John le Carre
I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and… — John Updike
The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes." "The whole of the realm denies it, brother," said Renley.… — George R. R. Martin
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit. — Neal Stephenson
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
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. — Plutarch
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. — G. H. Hardy
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that… — Chief Seattle
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of… — Chief Seattle
We fought in 1974 - that was a long time ago. After 1981, we became the best of friends. By 1984, we loved each other.… — George Foreman
It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies… — Jean Giraudoux
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long. — Anita Brookner
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. — George Chapman
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. — Augustus
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. — Aeschylus
Love with old men is as the sun upon the snow, it dazzles more than it warms them — Jonathan Petit Senn
Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. — Francois La Rochefoucauld

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