Older Man Quotes - Page 2

• What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.

  Erlend Loe

  Men, Together, Months

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• Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.

  Ben Feldman

  Men, Cash, Problem

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• It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.

  Francis Galton

  Hard Work, Men, Ideas

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• The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

  Rita Rudner

  Love, Marriage, Witty

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• I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him

  Minnie Driver

  Men, Thinking, Want

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• Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

  David Guterson

  Hero, Journey, Men

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• Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Men, Inexperience, Impossible

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• I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.

  Helen Mirren

  Girl, Wall, School

  "Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

  Mark Lawrence

  Men, Clothes, Degrees

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.110, Penguin

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• It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book. ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.

  Steve Martin

  Book, Writing, Men

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• I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Men, Adults

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

  Harold Ramis

  Men, Immature, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Men, Games, Squash

  Kikizo Interview, archive.videogamesdaily.com. April 2, 2009.

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• In my book tours I get to meet an audience every night. And I see that there are mostly young people, and there are a lot of more men than before, but always young, I don't get older men. As I'm getting older, my audience gets younger!

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Night, Men

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too.

  Catherine Wilson

  Real, Men, Behaviour

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially on the run. And so yeah, as I say, Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and this one got into the hands of Taika Watiti who then writing the screenplay decided to really vamp up if that's the word, or ramp up and modernize certain phrases - getting in the humor. So he added a lot of a real comedy perspective onto it which is what I think the story needed anyway, especially for it to turn into a film. And it worked.

  Rhys Darby

  Running, Real, Book

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.

  Nick Kroll

  Men, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Having a strong father, I wanted an older man.

  Cindy McCain

  Strong, Father, Men

  "Cindy McCain: Myth vs. Reality" by Nancy Collins, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 1, 2007.

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• Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Fighting, Men

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• Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose patience over the number of letters pouring in from fellows who want me or someone else to hand them a job on a silver platter with a guarantee that they will receive the wonderful promotion their talents warrant.... But a tragic number of young men and even older men have a notion that it is not up to them to prosecute the bettering process. They look to someone else to perform the trick for them.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Jobs, Men

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• This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

  Frank Miller

  Moving, Rain, Men

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• Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Organization, Two

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.133, tredition

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• The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Men, Order

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• Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met.

  Amy Poehler

  Sex, Believe, Men

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Heart, Men

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.3

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