Old Man Quotes - Page 31

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

  S. E. Hinton

  Mother, Father, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Men, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.40, B Times

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• the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.

  David Thorne

  Men, Feet, Complaining

  David Thorne (2011). “The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius”, p.321, Penguin

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• Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
  Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Rain, Boys, Men

  "Gerontion" l. 1 (1920)

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• My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

  Colm Meaney

  Stars, Thinking, Worry

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• An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Tea, Age

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• Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

  Mason Cooley

  Nature, Dirty, Men

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• Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Age, Affection

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• Inside many of us
  is a small old man
  who wants to get out.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Age, Want

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When and where will another come to take your holy place?
  Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?

  Margaret Walker

  Children, Men, Holy Places

  Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

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• Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side
  Is now the fitting place for thee:
  When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride,
  The youthful tendril yet may hide,
  The ruins of the parent tree.

  Walter Scott

  Daughter, Pride, Men

  Walter Scott (2016). “Woodstock, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.24”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Men, Years, Age

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• If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the word describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, America, Special

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• Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man

  Hanshan

  Men, Shine Bright, Rocks

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• If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The sound is good when you are close One old man sits beneath the trees Reading Lao Tzu and Huang Ti, mumbling I could not find the world if I searched ten years I've forgotten the road by which I came

  Hanshan

  Reading, Blow, Men

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• Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Men, White, Would Be

  Czeslaw Milosz, “A Song On The End Of The World”

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• An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

  Seneca the Younger

  School, Men, Ridiculous

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