Old Man Quotes

• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Old Things

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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• Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Men, Trying, Void

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2011

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• Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Eye, Men

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1359, Delphi Classics

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• Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Eye, Color, Sea

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.5, Hueber Verlag

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• Nobody loves life like an old man.

  Sophocles

  Life, Men, Existence

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• Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

  Red Smith

  Dream, Men, Vision

  Red Smith (2013). “American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America)”, p.325, Library of America

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Remembrance, Desire

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• I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Apr. 1934. A similar remark, attributed to an anonymous octogenarian, appears in the Washington Post, 11 Sept. 1910. See Jefferson 42

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Men, Elderly

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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• Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Longer Days

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

  Francis Bacon

  Birthday, Time, Men

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• Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

  George Chapman

  Men, Thinking, Age

  All Fools act 5, sc. 1 (1605)

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• But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Motivational, Inspiring, Fear

  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Philosophical, Men

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• Man is not made for defeat.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Perseverance, Self Esteem

  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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• Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at me all day.

  Rob Cantrell

  Children, Men, People

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• Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'”, p.25, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Cutting, Men

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Men, Smell, Rejection

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• There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Age, World

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• When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Depressing, Funny Inspirational

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

  Aeschylus

  Dream, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.87, Penguin

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• We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Birthday, Time, Men

  1870 Society and Solitude,'Old Age'.

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