Old Man Quotes - Page 22

• Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

  John Donne

  Men, Sight, Young

  1626 Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir William Cockayne, 12 Dec.

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• Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Eye, Men

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• I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Wall

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.289, Canongate Books

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• More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. All my days I have watched it and listened to it, and I know it well. At first it told to me only the plain little tales of calm beaches and near ports, but with the years it grew more friendly and spoke of other things; of things more strange and more distant in space and time.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Beach, Ocean, Book

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.953, Ageless Reads

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• All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.

  Stephen Spender

  Children, Memories, Eye

  "Selected Poems (Fall of a City)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1941.

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• Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

  Billy Joel

  Children, Men, Flags

  Song: Allentown, Album: The Nylon Curtain, 1982

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• Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

  Aristophanes

  Father, Men, Age

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies - Complete”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Fighting, Men, Happens

  "Calzaghe nicks round one". BBC Sport, February 08, 2008.

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• Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

  Vincent Massey

  Moving, Men, Wife

  "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.

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• The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

  George Clinton

  Men, Talking, Use

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• I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!

  Norbert Bisky

  Fashion, Men, Ideas

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• The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Eye, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the countryside better than the old men, and the flowers far better than the children.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Children, Flower, Fall

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• One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over the rough ground, whispered: 'How can you bring yourself to kill such beautiful, darling children? Have you no heart at all?' One old man, as he passed me, hissed: 'Germany will pay a heavy penance for this mass murder of the Jews.' His eyes glowed with hatred as he said this. Nevertheless he walked calmly into the gas-chamber.

  Rudolf Hoss

  Beautiful, Children, Heart

  "Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess". Book by Rudolf Höss, p. 150, 2000.

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• Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Reality, Men, People

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• There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

  Billy Joel

  Men, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Piano Man, Album: Piano Man, 1973

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• You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

  John Fogerty

  Running, Men, Controversy

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• I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

  Billy Joel

  Family, Men, Mint

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• My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

  Elton John

  Family, Men, Care

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• My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

  Tracy Chapman

  Family, Men, Bottles

  Song: Fast Car, Album: Tracy Chapman, 1988

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• Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

  Neil Young

  Family, Men, Looks

  Song: Old Man, Album: Harvest

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• O' beautiful, for spacious skies
  But now those skies are threatening
  They're beating plowshares into swords
  For this tired old man that we elected king.

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Kings, Tired

  "Song: 'The End of the Innocence'". 1989.

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• Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

  Michael Cera

  Men, Felt

  "Sardonic youth" by Andrew Male, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.

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• I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

  Dree Hemingway

  Teenager, Men, Sea

  "Dree Hemingway on Her Breakout Film Role in 'Starlet'". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

  Keri Hilson

  Boys, Men, Years

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