Old men Quote by George R.R. Martin

“Why do old men grow huge beards as if to proclaim a manhood that has long since fled?”

— Jeane Westin

“It might have been the seventies, but if you’re old enough for a moustache you’re too old for strawberry-patterned trousers.”

— Jo Wood

“On the street, men appeared to me like mad ghosts, old skeletons out of joint, whose bones, badly strung together, were falling to the…

— Octave Mirbeau

“Before me and beside me sat a row of the comeliest young men, clad in black gowns and wearing on their shoulders long hoods…

— Henry James

“That was the next-to-last time I felt any desire. And he was pale and tall (how disgusting tall men are, such a waste of…

— Maryse Holder

“mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs, have I lived enough joy to wear ye; and seem and feel thus intolerably old?”

— Herman Melville

“In the past men were handsome and great (now they are children and dwarfs), but this is merely one of the many facts that…

— Umberto Eco

“When women grow old and cease being women, they get beards on their chins; I wonder what men get when they grow old and…

— August Strindberg

“They looked neither older nor younger now; the beards of the aged were no whiter, nor could the creeping babe of yesterday walk on…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Why is the Maer looking at hairy balls?” A”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished. Memory fingers in their hair of murders Multitudinous murders they once witnessed. Wading sloughs of…

— Wilfred Owen

“All these old men want it to be like it was when they were young. But it'll never be like that again, and they'll…

— Omar El Akkad