Old Man Quotes - Page 9

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

  Seneca the Younger

  School, Men, Ridiculous

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

  Sophie Swetchine

  Men, Years, Age

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

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Age, Affection

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

  Mason Cooley

  Nature, Dirty, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

  Roberto Duran

  Crazy, Men, Bed

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• In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

  John Grisham

  Rain, Men, Talking

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• I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.

  John Lennon

  Growing Up, Son, Parenting

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• There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.

  Edward Lear

  Children, Men, East

  Edward Lear (1994). “Complete Nonsense”, p.59, Wordsworth Editions

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• I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

  Ed Asner

  Men, Voice, Limits

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• My old man is a man of few words.

  Scott Eastwood

  Men, Few Words

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

  Jonah Hill

  Pride, Men, Thinking

  "Jonah Hill Talks ‘The Sitter,’ Weight Loss And Disgust With Kardashians". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.

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• The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

  George Herbert

  Men, Self, Snow

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.326

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• Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
  [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

  George Herbert

  Men, Young, Scorn

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