Men Quote by Thornton Wilder Download Open image “I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!” — Thornton Wilder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Old man Splendid
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh! — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people. — Edwyn Collins Copy Share Image
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
“He respected the slight nervous shadow that crossed her face when he came too near her. But there arose out of this denial itself… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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