Old Man Quotes - Page 10

• Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

  George Herbert

  Men, Young, Young Man

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.245

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• Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

  George Herbert

  Men, Supper

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

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• In 22 years of acting, I've only done two movies where I, personally, kill people. The Coens called me the Spanish Ballerina on (the No Country For Old Men) set, because every time I had the gun, when they called cut, I'd give it back and say, 'Take this s**t out of my hands!' There were laughing, like they couldn't believe I was supposed to be the villain.

  Javier Bardem

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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• My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.

  Vivien Leigh

  Wise, Men, Talking

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• When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on who's in charge. If the young man's in charge or won't let the old man take over, the young man's brute strength becomes destructive and inefficient, and the old man's intelligence, out of frustration, grows cruel and inefficient. Sometimes the old man forgets that he is old and tries to compete with the young man's strength, and then it's a sad sight. Or the young man forgets that he is young and argues with the old man about how to do the work, and that's a sad sight, too.

  Russell Banks

  Frustration, Men, Sight

  Russell Banks (1986). “Trailerpark”

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• I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already.

  Ken MacLeod

  War, Character, Men

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• As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

  Charles Dickens

  Wall, Night, Men

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.78

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• When the old men fight, the young people die.

  Anne Fortier

  Fighting, Men, People

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.362, Ballantine Books

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• A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

  Michael Chabon

  Men, Light, Mind

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• My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

  S. E. Hinton

  Mother, Father, Men

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• I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

  Ted Kooser

  Men, Ideas, Cost

  Ted Kooser (2014). “The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book”, p.80, U of Nebraska Press

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• By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fighting, Men, One Day

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• I think it's good to know more than the average guy. If I'm in a bar now and some pretty girl is talking to some handsome 24-year-old man, I'll say, "Okay, who's the emperor after Caligula? What chief mistake did Marcus Aurelius make in choosing a successor?" He'll just look like an idiot. She'll just gravitate toward me, I'm thinking. It works in Detroit.

  Emo Philips

  Girl, Mistake, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd rather see a woman elected...They understand they can't spend more money than the old man brings home.

  Barry Goldwater

  Sex, Home, Men

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• If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Lying, Men, Might

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• Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

  Robert McCall

  Men, Be Who You Are, World

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• I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

  Tony Benn

  Teacher, Thinking, Men

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• Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

  J. C. Ryle

  Humble, Pride, Men

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• Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

  Anatole France

  Girl, Regret, Past

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• I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be "elevated" into another medium. Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Men, People, Adaptation

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• I taught myself to name my name,
  To bark back, loosen love and crying;
  To ease my woman so she came,
  To ease an old man who was dying.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Education, Men, Names

  W. D. Snodgrass, “April Inventory”

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• I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.

  George C. Scott

  Boys, Men, Years

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• Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Past, Men

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th ed., 1919.

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• Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Men, Soul

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Sex, Believe, Men

  Giacomo Leopardi, Ángel Flores (1966). “Poems and prose”

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