Old Man Quotes - Page 15

• "Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost."
  "And old men?"
  "Of what they have not found."

  David Berlinski

  Dream, Men, Discovery

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• Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful and moving. 'That is what I have wanted to say to you, my brothers. Before I died.' So he concludes, giving one a vivid sense of the old man, pen in hand and bent over the paper, his forehead wrinkled into a look of puzzlement very characteristic of him, as though he were perpetually wondering how others could fail to see what was to him so clear - that the law of love explained all mysteries and invalidated all other laws.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Love, Beautiful, Brother

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• The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Thinking, Grandfather

  "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks".

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• A thousand hills, but no birds in flight,
  Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks.
  A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man,
  Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

  Liu Zongyuan

  Lonely, Men, Fishing

  Liu Zongyuan, “River Snow”

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• "You're an old man who dresses like a Hooter's waitress."

  Greg Giraldo

  Funny, Men, Dresses

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• What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Stars, Flower

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• Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Player, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

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• I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

  Hugh Downs

  Dirty, Men, Want

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• Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Children, Men

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.195, Penguin

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• We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Struggle, Wrestling, Men

  Speech at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895.

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• In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

  Amadou Hampate Ba

  Men, Library, Burning

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• Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

  Amadou Hampate Ba

  Men, Library, Dies

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• I saw a very old man, literally eating his own human waste out of hunger. I went to the nearby hotel and asked them what was available. They had idli, which I bought and gave to the old man. Believe me, I had never seen a person eating so fast, ever. As he ate the food, his eyes were filled with tears. Those were the tears of happiness.

  Narayanan Krishnan

  Believe, Eye, Men

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• Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

  Thomas Adams

  Men, Differences, Faces

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.150

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• Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Men, Years

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• I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.

  George Lucas

  Hero, Character, Men

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• I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

  Pat Conroy

  Real, Men, Waiting

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.542, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Spiritual, Character

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• Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

  Noel Gallagher

  Men, Rocks, Oasis

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• Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the mentalities of six-year-olds, and my feeling is that they should not see such pictures, either.

  Shirley Temple

  Believe, Men, Years

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• By the way, I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking, but my response is this: he’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?

  Alan Grayson

  Men, Blood, Talking

  "Alan Grayson: It’s Hard For Me To Listen To Cheney Speak, He’s Like A Vampire" by Elyse Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.

  Julian Assange

  Summer, Men, Talking

  "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.

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• Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Falling In Love, Optimistic, Men

  Jonathan Carroll (2005). “Outside the Dog Museum”, p.126, Macmillan

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• Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Boys, Men, Might

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• And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.

  Tim Winton

  Reflection, Men, Judging

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