Old Man Quotes

• Nobody loves life like an old man.

  Sophocles

  Life, Men, Existence

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• Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Eye, Men

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1359, Delphi Classics

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• Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Men, Trying, Void

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2011

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• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Old Things

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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• Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Eye, Color, Sea

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.5, Hueber Verlag

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• Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

  Red Smith

  Dream, Men, Vision

  Red Smith (2013). “American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America)”, p.325, Library of America

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Remembrance, Desire

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• Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

  George Chapman

  Men, Thinking, Age

  All Fools act 5, sc. 1 (1605)

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• I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Apr. 1934. A similar remark, attributed to an anonymous octogenarian, appears in the Washington Post, 11 Sept. 1910. See Jefferson 42

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• Whenever I think of how religion started, I picture some frustrated old man making out a list of all the ways he could gain power, until he finally came up with the great solution of constant fear and guilt, then he leaped up and started planning a new wardrobe.

  Steve Blake

  Men, Thinking, Frustrated

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• I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.

  Roger Angell

  Men, Air, Scripture

  "This Old Man" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2014.

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• God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits of passion, jealousy, hatred and slandering the brethren; in short, everything that is characteristic of the old man.

  Poemen

  Passion, Men, Israel

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• Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Longer Days

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• Sex makes things strained. There are lovely people in Oneida, but everyone was married to everyone else. And you had fathers and mothers watching their twelve-year-old daughters being inducted into the group marriage by sixty-five-year-old men. There are creepy aspects of a lot of intentional communities when it comes to sex.

  Lauren Groff

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.

  Alec Guinness

  War, Men, Vices

  "Fictional character: Prince Faisal". "Lawrence of Arabia", 1962.

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• We have been told mankind will be judged on the intent of the heart. No mortal can see into the depth of another. There is only One who can. His is the role of a judge-not ours. If you are prone to criticize or judge, remember, we never see the target a man aims at in life. We see only what he hits.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Heart, Men, Judging

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

  Earl Warren

  People, Age, Complaining

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, p. 43, 1980.

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• The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Wise, Children, Men

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• We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

  Ernest Gaines

  Men, Bravery, Waiting

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• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Philosophical, Men

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Men, Elderly

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

  Francis Bacon

  Birthday, Time, Men

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• But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Motivational, Inspiring, Fear

  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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• Man is not made for defeat.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Perseverance, Self Esteem

  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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