Old Man Quotes - Page 34

• Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Age, Imagine

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• It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

  Joanna Baillie

  Men, Young, Company

  Joanna Baillie (2001). “Plays on the Passions”, p.266, Broadview Press

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• There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale, Which refreshed that Old Man and his owl.

  Edward Lear

  Men, Alcohol, Owl

  Edward Lear (2009). “The Book of Nonsense”, p.35, The Floating Press

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• Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Zoos, Kids, Men

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• My old man said, `Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!'
  But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied,
  Lost the van and don't know where to roam.

  Marie Lloyd

  Men, Way, Lost

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• The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.

  Jacques Roumain

  Music, Song, Father

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• The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Vices

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• I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

  Barry Goldwater

  Self Confidence, Men, Track

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1980). “With No Apologies”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Men, Years

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• And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

  Theodore Roethke

  Life, Giving Up, Breathing

  1948 The Lost Son,'Root Cellar'.

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• Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes sick people feel better and old men throw away their sticks and dance." Tshikona "brings peace to the countryside...." It is an example of the production of the maximum of available human energy in a situation that generates the highest degree of individuality in the largest possible community of individuals.

  John Blacking

  Music, Feel Better, Men

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• From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.

  William Peter Blatty

  Men, House, Black

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• I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.

  John Lee Hooker

  Music, Real, Men

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• A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

  Paul Gauguin

  Men, Young, Folly

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

  Sivananda

  Knowledge, Men, Needs

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• 'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Voice, Doubt

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was Young. And my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Men, Thinking

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• Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign.

  Merrill Markoe

  Nice, Men, Clothes

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• Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Love, Boys, Men

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Book, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• A thousand of old man are just able to dream, but a young man is able to change the world!

  Sukarno

  Dream, Men, World

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• Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again.

  Patrick Wallace

  Funny, Softball, Men

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• Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our way. Old men get nasty, old wines make us gay.

  Alexis Sanchez

  Wine, Gay, Men

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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
  Armchair warriors often fail
  And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
  The lawyers clean up all details
  Since daddy had to lie
  But I know a place where we can go
  And wash away this sin
  We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by
  And the tall grass wave in the wind
  Just lay your head back on the ground
  And let your hair spill all around me
  Offer up your best defence
  But this is the end
  This is the end of the innocence

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Song, Kings

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