Old Man Quotes - Page 29

• Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

  Perry Brass

  Men, Doors, Long

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.26, Perry Brass

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• With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Family, Running, Men

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• Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

  Shimon Peres

  Men, Jumping, Car

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• Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Men, Ridiculous, Should

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• Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.

  Moms Mabley

  Men, Police, Arms

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• Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [201]

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• It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very ill and I was taking care of him and my mother, and he was extremely depressed, virtually lost the will to live, and I realized my main job was cheering him up to save his life.

  John Lithgow

  Mother, Jobs, Cheer

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Can I give a little advice to the old man on Capitol Hill? Stop saying teabagger. Ask your younger staffers what it means.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Mean, Men, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Party, Men, Want

  AskMen Interview, au.askmen.com.

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• Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Clever, Kids

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• Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Fire, Gold

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee."

  Swami Vivekananda

  God, Art, Pride

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• If you need a baby that bad, go down to the pound and get one. Not even a baby - go get an old man. There's unwanted people of all ages, pre-made and waiting for you.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• The reason old man use Viagra is not that they are impotent. It's that old women are so very ugly.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• The thing I don't get about paedophilia... Why the hell do kids find old men in dirty raincoats so sexy?

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Sexy, Dirty

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• I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Military, War, Men

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• I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!

  Tony Blackburn

  Men, Years, Laughing

  "Interrogation: Tony Blackburn". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.

  Brett Dennen

  Stars, Men, Rocks

  Source: www.uncommonmusic.org

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• Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. Is there any mystery in the Vedanta, or in the Vedas, or in the Samhitâs, or in the Puranas? What secret societies did the sages of yore establish to preach their religion? What sleight-of-hand tricks are there recorded as used by them to bring their grand truths to humanity?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Men, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 3”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Men, Voice

  "Breakfast Of Champions". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1973.

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• Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.

  Melvin B. Tolson

  Dream, Men, Vision

  Melvin B. Tolson (1982). “Caviar and Cabbage”

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• An old man, broken with the storms of state,
  Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
  Give him a little earth for charity!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Broken, Giving

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 21

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• Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
  Communicated monthly, sit and stare
  At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
  Where a young man lands hatless from the air.

  John Betjeman

  Running, Men, Air

  'Death of King George V' (1937)

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• My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.

  Mike Greenberg

  Sports, Country, Growing Up

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