Old Man Quotes - Page 4

• The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Morning, Hero, Men

  Zora Neale Hurston, Chic Street Man, George C. Wolfe (2000). “Spunk: Three Tales”, p.42, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Children, Believe, Men

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.92, Random House

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• Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

  Aeschylus

  Dream, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, p.5, Everyman's Library

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• Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Men, Nuts, America

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Men, Long

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• The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

  George Osborne

  Party, Men, Benches

  "More Blairite than Tony" by Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

  Alex Katz

  Men, Painting, Masters

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• What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Men, Important

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• Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

  Honore de Balzac

  Past, Men, Sorrow

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• Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Winter, Men, Vanity

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.184

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• Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Men, Guy

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• And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.

  Marco Polo

  Men, Atheism, Assassins

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• The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Book, Men, White

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• That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Age, Weak Points

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• The interesting thing about 'True Blood' is that its appeal is not contained to teenage girls. I get stopped in the street and questioned by 70-year-old men whose wives and daughters are making Bloody Marys and throwing 'True Blood' parties.

  Stephen Moyer

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

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• The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes." "The whole of the realm denies it, brother," said Renley. "Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers' wombs. They deny it in Dorne and they deny it on the Wall. No one wants you for their king. Sorry.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Brother, Kings

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• You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Dream, Men, Voice

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.20, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mean, Men, Grace

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.399, Macmillan

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• Have you ever been in love, Hadrian?” “I’m not sure. How do you tell?” “Love? Why, it’s like coming home.” Hadrian considered the comment. “What are you thinking?” Bulard asked. Hadrian shook his head. “Nothing.” “Yes, you were. What? You can tell me. I’m an excellent repository for secrets. I’ll likely forget, but if I don’t, well, I’m an old man in a remote jungle. I’m sure to die before I can repeat anything.” Hadrian smiled, then shrugged. “I was just thinking about the rain.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Rain, Home, Men

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• I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back.

  Steven Moffat

  Men, Magic, Stories

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• She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.

  John Green

  Men, Earth, Walks

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.199, Penguin UK

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• You never see an old man eating a Twix

  Karl Pilkington

  Men, Eating

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• Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Action, Spontaneous

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.108, SCM Press

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• Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Jobs, Men, Old Things

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• Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern values just as you can see through our Western ones. Both of us, I am sure, have experienced ad nauseam the technical satisfactions of this wretched war. But now your own side is going to shoot you. Don't you think it's time to recognise that there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine?

  John le Carre

  War, Men, Thinking

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